Philly has a strong sense of place, creating endless chances for dialogue with classical music.
Rounding the turn to the end of my run along the Schuylkill, fatigue was rearing its head when Mozart stepped in.in my AirPods had reached that point in the third movement where the music seems to be unraveling with the inevitability of a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs, and the running suddenly got a lot easier.
Non-runners also know the synergies of joining music and place, and that it can happen unexpectedly anywhere you have your AirPods or the equivalent., the enormous mosaic on both sides of the SEPTA train platform in Jefferson Station. The nearly quarter of a million tiles that make up the colorful piece by David Beck and Verlin Miller assemble in your mind’s eye as a breezy, late-summer day beside a river.
Some pieces of music and places have etched a permanent association with each other in a corner of my brain, like the afternoon several years ago when the swells and quiet echoes of Vaughan Williams’melded with the tall pines and sharp cliffs of Monhegan, the small island off the coast of Maine. Runners more serious than me — meaning nearly everyone — have playlists that work for them, and often they’re heart-poundingly epic, ultimate, and beast mode.is anything but workout music. Sweet and serene , it’s almost a rocking lullaby in places. And yet it creates such an incredibly strong sense of a world apart that you focus on it and not your knees and back.
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