What I remember most from the last major earthquake I experienced was the silence immediately after the quake. It was a jarring juxtaposition -- one moment the earth was shaking and groaning, rattling and shaking the metal bars that propped up our windows, and suddenly nothing but silence. The silence soon transformed into disbelief, with minds processing and racing, trying to understand what had just happened.
The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra performed in Taipei today, and they asked for a moment of silence for the dead and suffering before starting the performance. The opening horn blasts of Bruckner's 8th could not have sounded more like the beginning of a funeral dirge, its final drum rolls and trumpet sounds a cry to the heavens.
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