20.03.2008, 07:42
You got to be tight but transporting

What the NYT wrote more than a year ago.
People often ask her, Ms. Rice said that day, whether playing chamber music is relaxing. "It's not exactly relaxing if you are struggling to play Brahms," she explained. "But it is transporting. When you're playing there is only room for Brahms or Shostakovich. It's the time I'm most away from myself, and I treasure it."

My god. Not relaxing but transporting away from yourself with music! And a stupid asshole like me always thought is was the other way round.

Wo man singt, da lass Dich nieder, böse Menschen singen keine Lieder, jawoll.

This is how the Whitehouse puts it.