Having Time

“I do not have the time for that, I am just composing my 4th symphony.”

According to the program of yesterday’s Bruckner-concert*:

‘This is the answer Anton Bruckner gave during the winter 1873/74, responding to the advise of one of his pupils to enjoy the ordinary niceties of life, to prefer the norms of the ordinary civil life rather than those of living as an artist, consider to marry.’

Fortunately he didn’t have the time for that …  😉 – and I guess I don’t have to add: Danny B. had been amazing as ever. And the question, the alterative that is proposed shows part of the mendacity of the life of many. Giving some impression, here from a performance in Vienna …, the same conductor, the same orchestra …, but not life …