Wednesday, November 05, 2008

File Under, "I Wish I Would Have Thought of That."

For the music geeks who read this, New Yorker music critic Alex Ross posted his reaction to Obama winning--the indescribable.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Because I know Kate will give me a hard time for being a music snob and not saying more...
This is the finale from Mahler's Eighth Symphony. The key line near the end translates to something like

"The insufficient/Here becomes occurrence/The indescribable/Here it is accomplished."

Maestro said...

You would know better than I but just from his music I have to think Mahler was just a pain in the ass to live with. :)