Difficult but essential, in corporeality is truth. Music live is radically different from music recorded. A recording is a simulacrum, an aide memoire , maybe a guide or learning tool. But music is in the flesh and in the moment, and it joins together those who hear it in a way that's both ancient and inexplicable. Individuals listening together and feeling less alone.
All art aspires to the condition of music.
And all art is the same, or at least all great art. I get the same thrill from a Handel oratorio or a dance by Merce Cunningham. Both show me the world, or, more precisely, the manifold worlds within me and in which I live. I work in live theatre. I try to do that, too.