Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.
The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.