The Choral Contrarians
A couple of friendly conductors bantering about complex issues affecting the choral world.
The Choral Contrarians
The Wallpaper of Spacetime
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Eric Barnum and Richard Robbins
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Season 4
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Episode 2
Richard and Eric look into a quote about art and music that has been making the rounds of social media recently. Formally attributed to postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, it reads: “Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.” Why does the statement illicit a strong response from those in the fine arts? What could it actually mean, or does it perhaps mean something that people are misinterpreting, en masse?