grgr (20): i s the audience listening?

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 "-because the halls are full of people like you! s t u f f e d  full!" (p. 441)

 "since the middle of the 19th century great music has broken with concert 
 practise. the consequence of the musical progress has grown into opposition to 
 the manipulated and, at the same time, self-satisfied needs of the bourgeois 
 audience. the numerically narrow conoisseurship got substituted by all those   
 who can pay a seat and want to prove their cultur to others. public taste and  
 the quality of works fell apart." 
 
 (m.o.p.a.t. from adorno's "philosophie der neuen musik" [1949], p. 17)

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