Some weeks ago at a good-not-great Italian restaurant just off Rosenthaler Platz, a friend of mine made an offhand comment about her inability to listen to Beethoven’s Fifth on its own terms. As a professional opera singer who has dedicated her life to the study (and singing) of the Western musical canon, her emotional experience of the symphony is now inseparable from and maybe even encumbered by the mountains of intellectual and theoretical context she has gleaned from years of serious musical study. Turns out you can only have one or the other.
Is Qu??bec ???Latin America????
The very question, is Québec Latin America, is so absurd, how can I even ask it? I ask because it is an absurd question…