I always listen to the first movement twice. Chaos doesn’t just happen, it builds on itself, it uses gravity to envelop, encircle and pull.

Olympic years and presidential election years can have a lasting impact on people’s memory. Whether such years also have a lasting impact on history depends on, well, history.

Some of us remember the turbulent economy of the 1970s, which made the last few years look like a walk in the park. We didn’t just have inflation, we had ...