From: "Howard Posner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > So do you really think it would be possible to spend time with Spohr, > > Hummel, Viotti etc. without getting massively irritated? > > My point was that Sor seems much better if your point of comparison is > Viotti than if your point of comparison is Beethoven. > But the answer to your question is yes. Those largely forgotten stars > of the early nineteenth wrote their share of decent music. That's why > they were stars. As a professional program annotator, it's > occasionally my job to write about music I'm not inclined to like, but > which, in my HIP way, I do my best to take on its own terms. There's > always something to like. Which is good, since in that particular > field of criticism it's really not permissible to pan the music; my > purpose is to enhance the concert experience, and it somehow detracts > from it to pick up your program and read that the first piece "really > sucks". > I unsderstand your predicament............ I'm lucky to be in position to avoid those "stars", in favor of the likes of Tomasek, Zelter, Loewe, Gebel, who all wrote fine music, unlike the ones above. RT
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