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How I get to spend my spring break

April 16, 2007 at 3:04 PM

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody's there, does it make a sound? If a violinist accurately plays the Eb minor 16th notes with bonus chromatic scales during a Strauss tone poem, will anyone notice? I suppose they might, so it's back to page eleven I go.

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