A duke, in order to show that he knew what he was talking about, declared: “It’s a difficult thing to play well.” Other more agreeable people chatted for a moment with me. There followed, before the next movement, a short interval during which the performers laid down their instruments and the audience exchanged impressions. The andante had just ended on a phrase filled with a tenderness to which I had entirely surrendered. From where does that inexplicable effect of music on our emotions come? What makes a piece of music “great”? It can’t just be revolutionary rhythms or technical difficulty. We’ve been contemplating the mysteries of music over the past few weeks, since our conversations with Gunther Schuller and Richard Powers.
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