Music Reviews & Interviews

Writing about music is like translating the Bantu word “Ilunga.” Gustav Mahler once said that “if a composer could say what [xe] had to say in words [xe] would not bother trying to say it in music.” C’est vrai. So how do we writers explain the experience of music – the sounds, the mood, the overall impression? We don’t. We prompt others to experience it themselves.