When I speak to small children I often don’t delve into the meaning of their babble, I just listen to timbres. It’s the same with Shakespeare. When I read Shakespeare, I give myself up to the flow. It doesn’t happen often. But those are the best moments. I read – and listen to his music. Shakespeare’s tragedies are filled with music. It was Shakespeare who said that the man who doesn’t like music isn’t trustworthy. Such a man is capable of a base act or murder. Apparently Shakespeare himself loved music. I’m always taken with one scene in Lear, in which the sick Lear awakens to music. << less