huggablekaiju:exhaustedscreen:‘The grave of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke in Novodevichye Ce
huggablekaiju:exhaustedscreen:‘The grave of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke in Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow is surmounted by a stone on which is engraved a rest beneath a fermata with a triple forte noted at the bottom: A very, very loud extended silence.’- John Biguenet, Silence (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), p.49.The fermata suggests the indicated notation (in this case, a rest) is to continue at the discretion of the conductor. When the chosen conductor arrives, Alfred Schnittke will rise again. -- source link