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"Some people reportedly booked tickets years in advance to experience Monday's chord change" Clearly they're attention seekers—their rustling about in seats or
by hilbert42 3y ago
"Some people reportedly booked tickets years in advance to experience Monday's chord change"
Clearly they're attention seekers—their rustling about in seats or asleep and snoring from boredom would be far more entertaining than the actual performance.
One has to wonder what kind of people are drawn to a musical event where if it were compared with say Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue BWV 582 then the latter's performance would be seen as a prestissimo running at relativistic speeds. Perhaps social scientists have insights into such strange behavior.
Of course, it's those who've booked tickets who are the center of attention here, such antics have always been expected of Cage.
- lo_zamoyski 3y agoIt's like they're all afraid of admitting the obvious, because some "famous guy" will tell them they're wrong. If that's not a textbook example of the sin of human respect, I don't know what is. Foolishness 1, Reason 0.
- hilbert42 3y ago"Foolishness 1, Reason 0." A variation on the Emperor's new clothes methinks.
- spencerflem 3y agoIts fun! Why are people so excited about eclipses or cicadas? I don't think everyone is being performative or doing it for attention (what attention)
- hilbert42 3y agoTotal eclipses have no equal—on earth anyway. I've had the great privilege of having seen three over the course of my lifetime. They're not normal experiences, they're something else again.
- Taek 3y agoSome might say the same about hearing a chord change in a 600 year composition
- 8bitsrule 3y agoIf you're viewing with a crowd of hundreds or thousands, the reaction to the moment(s) of totality can be be a total trip.
- xboxnolifes 3y agoTotal eclipses are far more common than this event.
- hilbert42 3y agoThank the heavens.