KLASSICAL MUSIC KILLS

The Toronto Transit Commission has been slowly poisoning their ridership (if I can refer to us that way). How, you ask? Through tinny transmissions of classical music piped in on speakers unfit for broadcasting human speech let alone string quartets or god forbid, a harpsichord concerto. For some it’s just a mild irritation, like the smell in Warden Station’s men’s washroom, but to others it’s a form of noise pollution that threatens the very way (and why) we listen to music.

Remember this clip?

As you can see, this is not unlike getting stuck on a breezy platform in mid-winter waiting for an express shuttle while they clean another jumper off the tracks. Is this any place for what used to be consider works of art?