In Reply to: For years, it's been bandied about by the music cognoscenti that young posted by tinear on April 15, 2014 at 17:03:43:
The romantic temperament is gone from society, for the most part. When one is not sufficiently romantic it becomes difficult to interpret romantic-era classical music, the most popular classical music category of today.There is a new feeling in society, however, and it shows itself as an insect-like fastidiousness in almost everything we do. Our pronged forearms keep charging forward, working patiently and incessantly to express perfection of form and uniformity of finish. It's not the most romantic of feelings, however.
The romantic feeling seems to have persisted for a time during the early part of the twentieth century. Yehudi Menuhin was a good example of this persistence. Comparing some of his early recordings to those done by stars like Zuckerman or Hahn much later on, I cannot help but feel that we are celebrating a different aspect of musical development today.
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