And some of the interpretations are pretty loose.
These realities, he adds, "are true regardless of the interpretations given to available or predicted statistics".
Here he kicks off the 25th season of the Interpretations series, with the program "Dialogue Social".
In Christianity, many of the interpretations associated with Mariology fall into the anagogical category.
One of the interpretations, it appears, is that if socialism has gone awry somewhere, it is no longer socialism.
Yet most of the interpretations and presentations seem to stay on the surface, not getting far beyond a bit of curatorial foreplay.
"I think the basic quality of the interpretations and the values is the same," Mr. Mann said of the current Juilliard String Quartet.
Mr. Subotnick, who recently turned 71, came to Merkin Hall on Thursday night as part of the Interpretations series produced by the World Music Institute and Thomas Buckner.
Some of the interpretations are anachronistic impositions on the ancient world; ancient testimony, for example, gives no support to commercial or mercantile explanations.
And while curators like Phill Niblock, who runs the Experimental Intermedia concerts, Thomas Buckner of the Interpretations Series and Jim Staley of Roulette have been active for decades, today's curators face vastly different challenges.
She had been impressed, she said by "the concision and coherence of the storytelling, in the originality of the interpretations, in the break from the romantic cliches of the genre: in the wit and style and heart".
