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A few minutes before 8 p.m., my heart beats faster. So many concerts start at this time — after years in the business my body is trained!<\/p>\nA few minutes before 8 p.m., my heart beats faster. So many concerts start at this time — after years in the business my body is trained!<\/p>\n
The particular ritual of the concert brings a kind of order to living. Concert days culminate in a seventy- or eighty-minute period of time that begins at 8:05, or 8:13 (late ticket buyers still in line).<\/p>\n
Of course, at Wigmore Hall<\/a>, this “8 o’clock” is 7:30 (often 7:33), in Rome it’s 9. Unlike the painter or the poet (one more revision?), the performer of live entertainments is on the spot\/in the hot seat\/in the limelight<\/a> — and then it’s over.<\/p>\n Irretrievable. Done. One way or the other, gone to memory, or preserved “for posterity” in a “live recording.” But not really. Really, it’s not preserved, it’s not saved — we can’t be saved. It’s gone. Whatever it may have meant or signified, no matter how much it cost in dollars or sweat or blood — it’s over, gone, finito<\/em>.<\/p>\n Until eight o’clock comes around again tomorrow… A few minutes before 8 p.m., my heart beats faster. So many concerts start at this time — after years in the business my body is trained! The particular ritual of the concert brings a kind of order to living. Concert days culminate in a seventy- or eighty-minute period of time that begins at 8:05, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[709,707,710,708,218],"class_list":{"0":"post-375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-8-oclock","9":"tag-concert-giving","10":"tag-performance-anxiety","11":"tag-ritual","12":"tag-time","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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