A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab.... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.


Message From a Stranger (1948)


A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab.... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of...

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab.... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of...

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab.... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of...

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab.... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of...