Music is about music.
But from the beginning, human beings have scratched drawings onto cave walls and found forms for our thoughts and dreams - in music, art and storytelling. It is a powerful human impulse to describe one thing in terms of another, to live through the metaphor, to preserve through the sign. Raymond Luedeke, Canadian composer most recently of a wonderful orchestral piece called Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra believes words can be found to describe what happens in music. It's hard to get at the words, but there are words. He pauses and laughs.