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...come to a concert rather than go to the movies at the same price. Yet it was painfully clear that they were extending their patronage first and foremost not to the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart, but to the fiddling, or to the ivory tickling, of Hcifetz, Mcnuhin and Rubinstcin. The desire to hear top-fight soloists is at best a natural desire to hear music performed by those most capable of performing it, but when this desire supersedes the wish for music itself, it into the song of mass idolatory of popular figures sponsored by Hollywood (a spirit...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 9/26/1941 | See Source »

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