One of the first essentials of creative art is the habit of imagining the most familiar things as vividly as the most surprising
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~Berthold Auerbach
"Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain." -- Michael Bakunin, quoted in Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station (1940)
Well, this seems just the place for a classical geek. :-)
