There are times when even Beethoven's Ninth does not fit the mood. mando On Dec 19, 2013, at 1:39 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> 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!"
