However, it has brought home one thing about the piece. It's easy to understand why it was a success with its earliest audiences. Once you get used to the sheer busyness of the music it's obviously attractive in a very instant sort of way. And it seems to get better as it goes along - or, rather, it guides you in how to listen, even if you're not listening hard.
I'm hoping that the weekend will afford me a little time to do it real justice, but in the giddy whirl of my little life that's by no means guaranteed.
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Salome, like much of the genre, is meant to be treated as spectacle. You can imagine the sets and the acting that goes with them.
The giddy whirl of our lives, however, is more like British group St Etienne's music, even though it sometimes also ascends (descends?) into spectacle.
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