Page 2 - Music Notes - July 2020, Issue No. 1

Fun Facts...

The World's Longest
Running Performance Will
End in the 27th Century

Up Close and Personal
A 639-year performance based on avant-garde
composer John Cage's "As Slow as Possible" started
in September 2001 and is still running at St. SPMO Principal Harp, Dr Lydia Buttigieg
Buchard Church in Germany. (Cage is also the guy
behind "4'33"," a composition that consists of four-
and-a-half minutes of whole rests—or, in normal
parlance, silence.)
Q. What small things make you happy?
The performance, by an automated organ,
progresses so slowly that visitors have to wait A. A m e s s a g e , a h u g a n d a t h a n k y o u .
months for a chord change, and is scheduled to Q. If you had a free plane ticket, where would you like to go?
conclude in 2640. The performance is so slow that
the organ it's played on was not even completed A. R e v i s i t i n g t h e h i g h l a n d s o f S c o t l a n d …
before the concert began. Pipes were added to keep
the music steady in 2008. Q. What is the first thing you do when you wake up?
A. C h e c k m y m o b i l e f o r a n y m e s s a g e s o r e m a i l s .
Q. What’s the best part of your daily routine?
A. P r a c t i c i n g o n m y h a r p o r p i a n o .
Q. The most dangerous or challenging thing you have ever done?
A. A c c o m p l i s h i n g m y D o c t o r a t e D e g r e e w h i c h t o s o m e e x t e n t w a s q u i t e

c h a l l e n g i n g d u e t o t h e l a c k o f M a l t e s e m u s i c l i t e r a t u r e
.
Q. Which of your possessions could you not live without?
A. M o b i l e , w a t c h a n d c a r .
Q. What was the last time you cried?
A. T h e p a s s i n g a w a y o f m y d e a r p a r e n t s …
Q. What is the one thing that you feel you can never outgrow?
A. D a y d r e a m i n g … . .
Q. What have you always wanted to try?
A Song That Gets Stuck in A. S c u b a d i v i n g a n d H o r s e r i d i n g .

Your Head is Called an Q. What instantly makes you angry?
Earworm A. D i s h o n e s t y a n d L i e s

An earworm, also sometimes called "a brainworm,"
"sticky music," or "stuck song syndrome," refers to
catchy music that continually repeats through a
person's mind, even after it's no longer playing.

There have actually been studies done on earworms,
including one out of the University of London, which
found that earworms could also be triggered by
experiences that bring up a memory of a song, such
as seeing a word that reminds you of the song,
hearing a few notes from the song, or feeling an
emotion which you associate with the song.