To most observers, the world of classical music and that of hard rock, particularly heavy metal, could not seem more disparate.

After all, classical music represents order: Old World instruments creating harmonious symmetry to a well-dressed audience seated and so silent that an inopportune cough can draw the ire of fellow concertgoers (or worse, the conductor). By contrast, a metal concert can feel like chaos: Modern Age electric instruments plugged in and played a volume so searing that a cough (or a yell, for that matter) is indecipherable, to a standing t-shirt clad audience pressed against the stage, whirling in a hurricane of humans or flinging themselves off said stage. One can be forgiven for failing to see any common threads between these two seemingly divergent entities. However, a closer look reveals evidence to the contrary. Full story.

Alex Skolnick (WQXR) / February 24, 2022

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