Death of Classical’s ‘After the Fall’ and the architecture of listening (opens in new tab)

Long before music belonged to the concert hall, it belonged to stone. It belonged to churches, chapels, cloisters, crypts, courts, salons, and chambers where sound was never entirely separate from ritual. A note did not simply travel through air; it gathered against limestone, slipped into arches, trembled beneath vaults, and returned to the body altered... Read More