On May 25, 2007, at 3:17 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Yes, if you present new music as bad-tasting medicine that you listen to for your own good, people won't like it.
That is exactly how Brahms was presented as late as 1900, and that is exactly how audiences reacted. During his lifetime there were numerous critics and conductors who asserted that he was a coldly intellectual composer whose music would never be popular.
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