That night, they had dinner in a modest restaurant specialising in Argentinean beef. Despite its simplicity, the food was delicious: a thick steak, salad, bread, and a flask of red wine. More tantalising than the Argentinean food was Lopez’s conversation about music. In fact, it was a lesson in musical appreciation on a broad scale. It seemed to him now that his long abstention from music, and how he had been restricted to one type of classical music - chamber music - was an expression of his own self shrinking and entering a state of mourning. His head was lowered as he listened to Lopez.
‘Music, my dear man, is a human concern. Did you know that, in actual fact, the wonderful, varied music we hear is sound waves that cannot be seen or heard? What we hear, music in terms of melody, would
