the 'bayreuth hush' is the quiet that descends upon an audience in the few seconds preceeding the beginning of a classical music performance that, somewhere along the line in audience etiquette history, became the standard for examplary sophistication. i'd like to experience the good old days when composers were treated like rock stars and shouted at during their performance. enthusiastic clapping after a particulary stunning passage! whoops and hollers! lighters in the air (which, in mozart's day, might've been... a candelabra?)
google it and you'll find my new favorite scholar- simply because i envy his choice of subject matter and fucking status at the new yorker.
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Fucking status?
meaning: i'm so jealous of all people that have regular pieces in the new yorker, thus achieving a status of authorship that makes me greeeeen.
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