I was surprised to find that in Baruch there existed an elevator that only went downwards into the basement which contains nothing more than our own performance space! It really is a breath of fresh air to see some kind of artistic endeavor being pursued at a predominantly business orientated school. The space is gorgeous too. I was impressed by the white washed wall that had quotes about music all alongside it.

   As for the Quartett itself, I was definitely impacted by the music. It being only my second time at an orchestra performance, and Carnegie Hall being my first, I noticed an obvious difference between western style and asian inspired classical music. As I payed attention to the notes, I realized that I could hear a cohesion between the notes, it was smooth and flowy, not spaced out and static sounding. All in all, the music was beautiful and I felt like it belonged in the background to a love movie. However, once again, I cannot say anything more about the music because I don't know anything more about it. I am not trained in any area of music to be able to discern quality music form non quality or say something intelligent about distinct aspects of the music. Again, I could only relate to the music by describing how it made me feel and what pictures it painted in my head. And to tell the truth, the music made me sleepy. I caught myself nodding off a few times throughout the pieces. And as I looked around me, I noticed older people who apparently had come to the performance for their own benefit, nodding off as well. Once I analyzed the situation, I remembered that music only required one of our senses. Therefore, the performance of music is actually not required, especially when there is really no transfer of energy between the performers and the artists, like in a theatrical performance. It also takes a lot of concentration to really listen to a piece of music especially when one has no training and cannot differentiate one piece from the next. In addition, music is usually listened to while doing another task, and for me, makes the music that much more enjoyable. 

In addition, I didn't really see any correlation between this and the theatrical version of Quartett. I know that the title itself implies an orchestra playing a quartett, but I could not see any relationship between the two. Now that I think about it, however, maybe thats the point. Because the title has nothing to do with the play itself except for the fact that there are 4 characters in it, it further tears apart our view of theater as representational.