He notes that the wave conception of sounds is not the only possible interpretation of Aristotle's remarks about sounds in On the Soul.
Shaw's conception of choral sound was large and lush, and the repertory was often (though not always) Romantic, with choirs of 200 singers, many of them choral conductors who attended the sessions to learn how Shaw did it.
Perfection has always held a kind of promise, but this conception of it sounds less like a promise than a threat.
If the question about the relation between revelation and philosophy pertains to a decision for faith or philosophy, Strauss's conception of revelation sounds very much like Kierkegaard's conception according to which a leap of faith defines revelation.
Smith, a long-time friend of Brubeck's since the two studied together under Milhaud, had a better conception of the group sound and, although his playing tended towards the clinical, it fitted well with Brubeck.
"From this," he added, "was born my conception of the massing of sound events".
Though The Coming of Age pays closer attention to the diversity behind the unifying myths and works with a somewhat different conception of otherness, it sounds remarkably similar to The Second Sex as it traces the sources of the marginal status of the aged.
While the mystery is perplexing, it is also a reminder of one of the more remarkable relationships in music history: between the older master, Mahler, who pushed the concept of the 19th-century symphony to its limits, and the young modernist, Schoenberg, whose conception of harmony changed the sound of classical music.
When the state supports valuable pursuits over worthless ones, it no more denies the equal moral status of those who reject its action than when it enforces a sound conception of justice that is in dispute.
