{"id":1719,"date":"2009-09-11T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2009-09-15T05:13:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T09:13:37","slug":"umbrella-creativity-a-shared-description-of-both-the-uk-premiere-of-sir-peter-maxwell-davies%e2%80%99s-violin-concerto-no-2-%e2%80%9cfiddler-on-the-shore%e2%80%9d-and-the-sir-john-soane-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/2009\/09\/umbrella-creativity-a-shared-description-of-both-the-uk-premiere-of-sir-peter-maxwell-davies%e2%80%99s-violin-concerto-no-2-%e2%80%9cfiddler-on-the-shore%e2%80%9d-and-the-sir-john-soane-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Umbrella Creativity: A Shared Description of Both The UK Premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies\u2019s Violin Concerto No.2, \u201cFiddler on the Shore\u201d and The Sir John Soane Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

The beauty hit us.<\/p>\n

Like waves against<\/p>\n

the stones of the shore upon which the fiddler, the architect, played.<\/p>\n

It gave way to<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0whimsical<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0terror<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and with each turn<\/p>\n

of a page or corner,<\/p>\n

we discovered that<\/p>\n

only a new anguished horror awaited us.<\/p>\n

Variably, precision melted,<\/p>\n

moaned away<\/p>\n

into \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0g\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0s\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0u\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 r\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 s<\/p>\n

of<\/p>\n

terse<\/p>\n

vibrations<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

amorphous design. The crashing dissonance \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hit us,<\/p>\n

poured over us and into our eyes and ears,<\/p>\n

unwinding\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0the\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0tendrils<\/p>\n

of muscle which control<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 perception and jamming<\/p>\n

the cogs<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 which regulate a finely-tuned, mechanical reality.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Amidst the breakdown stood a man.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He stood<\/p>\n

alone, crazed and removed<\/p>\n

and moving<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 erratically, creating<\/p>\n

buildings and music and life in the midst of chaos.<\/p>\n

This sound, this place, is chaos.<\/p>\n

Can sound not be<\/p>\n

[a place]<\/p>\n

? We were told that art is. How can you argue that<\/p>\n

this is not<\/em> art?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The beauty hit us. Like waves against the stones of the shore upon which the fiddler, the architect, played. It gave way to \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0whimsical \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0terror \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and with each turn of a page or corner, we discovered that only a new anguished horror awaited us. Variably, precision melted, moaned away into \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0g\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[736,77],"tags":[1243,1004],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anya","category-museums","tag-royal-albert-hall","tag-sir-john-soane-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}