“Indefinitiveness is an element of true music–I mean of true musical expression. Give to it any undue decision–imbue it with any very determinate tone–and you deprive it, at once, of its ethereal, its ideal, its intrinsic and essential character. You dispel its luxury of dream. You dissolve the atmosphere of the mystic upon which it floats.”
Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
