These fragments I have shored against my ruins. -T.S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.  -T.S. Eliot
Showing posts with label Alex Ross. Show all posts
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Friday, June 1, 2012

Symphonies without movements, operas without words








We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind.
-George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life

Image: The Musarithmetic Ark, attributed to Athanasius Kircher, 1650

Title thanks to: Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century