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Is Using Classical Music To Fall Asleep Disrespectful To The Art Form?

AUDIENCE, MUSIC Posted: December 9, 2015 1:31 am

J. Bryan Lowder: “The same music that you’d be chastised for dozing off to during a concert is available for precisely that purpose when you get home. Why does the taboo apply in one place and not the other? … I’m happily using a Cy Twombly piece as my iPhone background right now; should using a Beethoven sonata as nightcap really feel any different?”

AUDIENCE, MUSIC Published: 12.07.15

Read the story in Slate Published: 12.07.15

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