1968/12/01 by Ned Rorem · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Music History and Culture #Wonder #Moonlight #Resentment #Art #Bit (key) #Aesthetics #Visual arts #Psychoanalysis #Art history #Literature #Psychology #Law #Social psychology #Political science #Computer science
paper · doi:10.2307/3392348
openalex publication_date 1968/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
whether some virtuoso tonight will perform the Moonlight Sonata a bit better or a bit worse than another virtuoso performed it last night. But I do often attend what used to be called avant-garde recitals, though seldom with delight, and inevitably I look around and wonder: What am I doing here? Where are the poets and painters and even the composers themselves who used to flock to these things? Well, perhaps what I am doing here is a duty, keeping an ear on my profession so as to justify the joys of resentment, to steal an idea or two, or just to show charity toward some friend on the program. But I learn less and less. Meanwhile the absent