I really love where you went with this, and what a fun idea. Of course all kinds of touchstone songs came to mind, though I don’t know if anything can compare with your experience driving with your friend. What would I choose? Unexpectedly to me, a song by Mozart. I’m not a huge classical music buff, but my grandmother gave me a set of headphones, a cheap walkman, and a tape of Mozart music when I was maybe 9. It was the first music I ever heard through headphones and it was so powerful.
One of the tangents I omitted was “the universality of music being a completely an individual experience, alongside it being communal too”. Do you still remember which Mozart? I think 9th symphony comes to mind for me, but our perception of it comes from many places so it’s kind of prevalent in our culture which kind of negates the distinct first experience.
The idiot is harder to read than the other two for me. Maybe I’m not in the same receptive and excited mood as I was for the other two. Maybe it’s a bit of fatigue..
I wish I could remember. It could have been the 9th. Something similar to that anyway. I'm pretty sure the tape was just titled "The Best of Mozart." I'll probably never remember exactly what it was, but that experience of hearing music like that in stereo, like it was inside my own head, for the first time, will remain.
Reading a lot of Dostoevsky back to back is definitely fatiguing. He could get incredibly caught up in his own ideas. I think I like that one so much in part because it's my dad's favorite of his.
I really love where you went with this, and what a fun idea. Of course all kinds of touchstone songs came to mind, though I don’t know if anything can compare with your experience driving with your friend. What would I choose? Unexpectedly to me, a song by Mozart. I’m not a huge classical music buff, but my grandmother gave me a set of headphones, a cheap walkman, and a tape of Mozart music when I was maybe 9. It was the first music I ever heard through headphones and it was so powerful.
(“The Idiot” is one of my favorite novels.)
One of the tangents I omitted was “the universality of music being a completely an individual experience, alongside it being communal too”. Do you still remember which Mozart? I think 9th symphony comes to mind for me, but our perception of it comes from many places so it’s kind of prevalent in our culture which kind of negates the distinct first experience.
The idiot is harder to read than the other two for me. Maybe I’m not in the same receptive and excited mood as I was for the other two. Maybe it’s a bit of fatigue..
I wish I could remember. It could have been the 9th. Something similar to that anyway. I'm pretty sure the tape was just titled "The Best of Mozart." I'll probably never remember exactly what it was, but that experience of hearing music like that in stereo, like it was inside my own head, for the first time, will remain.
Reading a lot of Dostoevsky back to back is definitely fatiguing. He could get incredibly caught up in his own ideas. I think I like that one so much in part because it's my dad's favorite of his.