Impressive Words

Responding to a recent radio interview of NPR, Richard Powers, one of my favorite American novelists, said on describing pieces of music that don't actually exist as follows:

"My challenge as a writer was how to create descriptions not just of canonical 20th century pieces, but to create vivid descriptions of fictional pieces. Works for small ensemble, for voice, symphonic orchestra, operatic works that did not exist and yet describe them in a way that was vivid and compelling and re-created the internal drama of the composer as he was at work on them. So it was almost as if I had in my own head to write the music first and then produce a kind of prose that recaptured the music and the rhythm and the challenge and the transgression of these pieces."

☆Difficult but cool!  I'm rooting for your challenge, Mr. Richard Powers.