I got that part-that Beth. Ninth was more than nice by you but William is right, can you remember and recount a rather tepid reaction to something generally accepted as deserving a more vigorous aesthetic reaction? and not Godot or other play part of whose structure is to bore the audience silly before making its point.
-----Original Message----- From: Cheerskep <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Dec 19, 2013 12:03 pm Subject: Re: comment invited William writes:
If Cheerskep can discuss why he only finds Beth. Ninth "nice" then he will partly explain the aesthetic experience. WC
This is what I wrote: Given a vacation from the work
or > food, I recover something very like the original ecstasy. After
such a
> vacation from Beethoven's Ninth, I've never returned to it and
found it
> nothing > more than "nice".
That was my rather contorted attempt to convey what is the opposite of what William inferred. The contortion came in part from my trying to echo Man do's phrasing: realism that i'm familiar with is
just that, like a reaction of "nice to see you again" nothing more. In fact, given the needed vacations, my feeling upon hearing
Beethoven's Ninth is repeatedly one of the highest music-ecstasies I ever experience. To answer the core of William's question: I don't know why it occasions for me that experience. I'm just aware enough to realize I don't explain a thing with a line like: "I react like that because the symphony has art!"
