This is just a little thing to communicate a thought I had a minute ago:

I was remembering the songs in the Banff production of the Hobbit, back in the summer of 2000, and wishing that I had a recording of it. But, I thought, there weren't any studio recordings of it, so it would have had to be a live recording of a performance, with all the coughing, rustlings and other blemishes in the back ground.

Thinking on that though, I realised that the music wouldn't sound right, as a studio recording; it would be to sterile. It would lose some of it's life that way. To truly have the right effect, it must be live; and with each performance of it, there should be a new collection of children laughing, and wind rustling in the leaves, and the fire popping. And muted murmuring, and people shifting. This music should never really be recorded at all; for it's true existence, is in a real, living medium; like a tale. They should be Told, and passed on.

Well, if I haven't managed to communicate what I mean, then I'm just not able to do it at the moment. So, I go.
M.