That, at any rate, is what audience members will mostly find when Kodo, at once a bastion of tradition and a hotbed of novelty, plays this evening at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College in Purchase, N.Y., and on Tuesday at Carnegie Hall.
(Remember New Coke? Oh, the horror...) On the other hand, it's long been known that novelty plays an incredibly important role in activating our brain's reward center and in keeping us content with our products.
More recent evidence indicates that novelty plays an important role in learning and memory (46).
In that context, Shakespeare is more than a novelty play; it has an educational component to it, too.
Mr. Grove said that many people who had never played video games were "taking a second look" because of the novelty of playing for money.
For instance, the novelty of playing in front of so many supporters that Brown will struggle to hear team-mates – as will be the case when GB play Brazil at a sold-out Wembley, on 31 July.
After a certain age (say, seven) the novelty of playing songs at the wrong tempo tends to wear thin, although it was always highly entertaining to hear John Peel regularly get his 33 and his 45 RPM mixed up.
Back at Half Moon Bay, when the Hendricksons and I reached the three finishing holes that run along the cliffs starting at the 16th, they were drawn to the edge of the foggy abyss and the novelty of playing golf to an orchestra of crashing waves.
After the novelty of playing one or two wears off, the thinness of meta-games usually becomes apparent, and so they are only ever a fad.
While the novelty of playing games without a controller is undeniable, the technical limitations mean that Microsoft's hopes that Kinect drawing the hardcore are likely to remain unrealized.
