//Json index for use with feed widgets. Define a unique object name for each blog using the variable jsonObjName. pttfFeed = { "channel": { "title": "Performance Today - Today\'s Fredlines", "link": "http://www.publicradio.org/columns/performancetoday/fredlines/?refid=0", "description": "", "published": "Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:25:24 -0600", "language": "en", "items": [{ "title": "Music and Silence", "description": "\\Robert Fripp\<\/a\>: “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”\<\/p\>\n\n\\Aldous Huxley\<\/a\>: “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”\<\/p\>\n\n\\Marcel Marceau\<\/a\>: “Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”\<\/p\>\n\n\\Leopold Stokowski\<\/a\> (to an audience not providing enough silence): “A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.”\<\/p\>\n\n\\Former pianist, now anonymous monk\<\/a\>: “Silence is my music now.”\<\/p\>\n\n\\Edith Sitwell\<\/a\>: “My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”\<\/p\>\n\n\Music theorist \Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis\<\/a\>: “The same acoustic silence, embedded in two different excerpts, can be perceived dramatically differently.”\<\/p\>\n\n\\John Cage\<\/a\>, on reaction to his ‘silent’ piece 4’33”: “They missed the point. There’s no such thing as silence. What they thought was silence, because they didn’t know how to listen, was full of accidental sounds. You could hear the wind stirring outside during the first movement. During the second, raindrops began patterning the roof, and during the third the people themselves made all kinds of interesting sounds as they talked or walked out.”\nQuoted by \Richard Kostelanetz\<\/a\> in his 2003 book, \“Conversing with John Cage.”\<\/a\>\<\/p\>\n\n\\