That’s the entire text of the shortest letter in the Guardian today.
It was written by Howard Burrell, emeritus professor at the University of Hertfordshire.
Mahler said much the same. So did John Cage.
But it’s good to be reminded.
The Mozart concerto due to be played three…
The Manhattan School of Music this morning quietly…
The tenor Ian Bostridge shocked Symphony Hall Birmingham…
The orchestra’s president Gary Ginstling has engaged Katya…
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And if no one is listening?
According to Rodgers and Hammerstein – Only if the hills are alive with it
If Mahler had lived to hear his symphonies punctuated by mobile phones and all the other aural impedimenta of modern life, he might have had a rethink. All sound is not music, any more than all prose is poetry.
Paul Mann is generally right, but, if a cell phone went off during a performance of John Cage’s 4′ 53″, it would fit right into the concept of the piece.
Oh dear…yet another academic imperative…please be quiet.
My morning gaseous expulsions are not music to my ears.
Unable to find the letter…curious about what article or review the writer was responding to. Context?
“My God! What has sound got to do with music!”
Charles Ives (Essays before a Sonata (1999) p.84)