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The downside of this information overload is a familiar one: with myriad possibilities accessible at the flick of a finger, it becomes harder to concentrate on a single album or on a single work. Gluttony takes hold, indigestion sets in. For that reason, I still prefer CDs or LPs: the experience is finite and complete, with silence on both ends. It’s akin to sinking into a pleasantly musty old hardback as opposed to scrolling through the babbling infinity of social media. Of course, the two experiences can coexist. On the assumption that only a physical object is likely to last, I bought the Ormandy recording and added it to my shelf.
Apple Again Fails to Save Classical Music
newyorker.com
Mittelstand commonly refers to a group of stable business enterprises in Germany, Austria and Switzerland that have proved successful in enduring economic change and turbulence. The term is difficult to translate and may cause confusion for non-Germans. It is usually defined as a statistical category of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs; German: kleine und mittlere Unternehmen or German: KMU) with annual revenues up to 50 million Euro and a maximum of 500 employees.
Mittelstand
Angela Merkel
The linguists Michael B. Montgomery and John M. Kirk use the term “punctual *whenever*” in referring to “the subordinating conjunction *whenever*, especially when used for a onetime, momentary event.”
Whenever Harry Met Sally
Grammarphobia
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