'Our job is to reduce all local noises to the right proportions, so that the silence may be heard for what it really is, a solvent which destroys personality and gives us leave to be great and universal.'
Published February 04, 2004
Radio Times, 1935. The above is from the liner notes for the Double CD set, "Kenotaphion." It's a compilation of the archive recordings of Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday - two-minute silences recorded at the Cenotaph, in Whitehall, London, England.
The recordings begin with the first broadcast commemorative silence of 1929, transmitted on the 10th aniversary of 1919's first Armistice tribute, and continue right through the remainder of the twentieth century to 2000's two minutes of silence. Peter Aspden of the Financial Times wrote an insightful, provocative piece about the sounds of silence in his column of this past weekend.
- 'Our job is to reduce all local noises to the right proportions, so that the silence may be heard for what it really is, a solvent which destroys personality and gives us leave to be great and universal.'
- Published: February 04, 2004
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Who wrote this flipping title, Fiona Apple?
A cenotaph is a tomb or monument erected in honor of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere. It is from the Greek, meaning "empty tomb."
Probably the best-known cenotaph in the modern world is the one that stands in Whitehall, London, and is the location for the annual service of remembrance in November.
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I daresay some cowbell may well be in order.