Karl Miller wrote:

> I would suggest an experiment.
> Try taking a work like that piece of Kirchner.  Listen to it repeatedly
> to the point where you can tell in your mind what note will come next.
> While I cannot promise that you will find beauty, I sense that your mind
> will find, on some level, drama and expression and, I hope, great meaning.

I have often wanted to talk somebody, say, who doesn't think there's
anything in 'classical' music, into listening over and over again to,
say, a Beethoven string quartet, perhaps Op. 74, until they know it
really well.  It'll either change that person's life, or he/she may as
well listen to Yanni forever, for he or she isn't really musical at all.
Probably the same would apply to a lot of 'atonal' music.  You have to
be willing to work at it, and if you don't want to, it's your loss.

Donald Clarke

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