In Reply to: Rick - I don't disagree with your post, but see my post above ("There's a bit of arrogance. . . ") posted by Chris from Lafayette on January 8, 2017 at 09:44:25:
I was listening to classical music almost around the clock from early childhood. So, I've heard the top 500, or even the top 1,000 classical hits, a whole lot. I can play large sections of many of them by ear, even if I've never seen the score. So a spiffy new high-def multi-channel of the New World, or the Pathetique, or the Spring, or the Jupiter, or the Pastoral, or the Inextinguishable, or the "- Of A Thousand" (hey, this is fun), is fine, but probably not as interesting to me as a convincing performance of something entirely new, or old but infamiliar. Even if most of what is entirely new is less than convincing.
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Follow Ups
- Part of it us one's upbringing. - rbolaw 14:35:22 01/08/17 (2)
- Understood - no problem with that [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 16:38:09 01/08/17 (1)
- But having said all that - rbolaw 18:40:58 01/08/17 (0)