Painting heard the first of what has turned out to be a 30-year string of eulogies, praising its glorious past at the moment of its supposed death.
At one point, Calvi confesses that, occasionally, when she looks at a painting, she hears music coming out of it.
As he looked at the painting, he heard, through the open windows, "swells and falls" of a military band that "seemed to me more devotional, in their perfect art, tune, and discipline, than anything I remembered of evangelical hymns.
But even without the philosophy one sees the painting, one hears the orchestra and it is immediately felt and comprehended on an emotional rather than an intellectual level.
There are re-enacted scenes from the artist's life, but we see his face only as he painted it, hear only words he wrote.
All the major Facebook areas should be getting this new coat of paint, we hear.
A20 No Big Changes in Voting Seen State elections officials at a Capitol Hill hearing painted a bleak picture of the improvements in voting systems they may be able to achieve by midterm elections next year, especially if Congress and the White House continue to sidestep the issue.
Even if you are a diehard Knife fan, one au fait with questioning the discourse of music as light entertainment, down with their quotes from Fugazi and Salt-N-Pepa, clued up on Jeanette Winterson and Margaret Atwood (all of whom feed into this startling, periodically brilliant work), hearing paint dry at such length can be pretty wearing.
Works of art may have effects that go beyond their medium, and hence music may affect seeing, painting affect hearing, and so on.
I was about to splash the painting when I heard that laugh again.
