Ah, pleasure! Debussy eventually declared it was his sole guiding aesthetic, and it's hard to argue with the results. Indeed, why do we listen to music other than to derive pleasure from the experience? (Schoenberg, on the other hand, would have a few things to say about truth--and that's not always pretty.)
So, I had this dream, oh, seven or eight years ago . . . I heard a woman's voice singing, "I want to pleasure you still." Let me tell you, I woke up and wrote that down! And then I found the entire tune, built it around that opening line. And here it is, "Pleasure," track 8 on Meditations in Blue. SH
Pleasure
