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In Reply to: RE: It is unfortunate, but classical music continues to take it on the chin for past sins of posted by steve.ott@kctcs.edu on October 6, 2020 at 13:04:35:
I'm a big fan of Barzun.
If I'm not confusing his book with Boorstin's "Creators," I really enjoyed all the surprising perspective, such as IIRC the "invention" of the audience, (passive onlookers as opposed to participants) and the invention of the Concert Hall, which allowed the recently invented "artist" to orchestrate in far more subtle ways.
Great stuff~
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- I would have picked far more compelling examples of current absurdities destroying Western Civilization. Otherwise, - jdaniel@jps.net 15:13:57 10/06/20 (0)