11/25/2023 0 Comments All night beyonce listenI came across that Bernstein quote the other day while listening to Solange Knowles’s new album A Seat at the Table from beginning to end-all 51 minutes and 43 seconds of it. Thanks to the rise of online music streaming and MP3s, it’s easier than ever to cherry-pick individual songs without giving a second thought to their original context. ![]() In the years since, our musical attention span has only gotten shorter. He bemoaned the fact that so few people were willing to sit through a 90-minute symphony anymore-to let an artist take the time to work up to a crescendo and return listeners back to earth. “Who has time to listen to a Mahler symphony, for God’s sake?” said Leonard Bernstein in a 1989 interview with Rolling Stone.
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