When does your experience of a new piece of music begin? When you hear the first note? When the performers first enter the space? Or does the context of the venue’s ambience beforehand also affect how you take in the piece? Does the experience begin with the first rehearsal, the first compositional sketch, the first piece of publicity for the eventual show? If I’m writing about an upcoming performance and you’re reading my words, are we both already involved in it?
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