Showing posts with label Karamazov. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Karamazov. Show all posts

Sunday, February 17, 2008

on Pärt's "Cantus in memorian Benjamin Britten"

How much effort is needed to enable a performance? How much petroleum? How many hands need to be cut off for diamonds? How many diabetics put on vascularly damaging drugs?

Yet, how beautiful is Brahms?

Am still reading Karamazov, looking for redemption.