I had just heard the Cologne Chamber Orchestra perform Mozart's Divertimento No. 11 in D major on SiriusXM this afternoon. Unexpectedly, the Symphony Hall announcer mused, "Isn't it nice to be diverted?"
Well, yes--especially when you use Classical music, per the announcer, as "a respite from the news." In fact, I don't want to stop with being diverted. I'd also like to be enraptured by a rhapsody, knocked out by a nocturne, and feel simpatico with a symphony.
So often, the news is just that depressing.
