Business of Music
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Wine for Beethoven was symbolic. It was something that would bring everyone around the table to eat and drink and be equals.
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I remember seeing the Indian women with babies wrapped about them quietly contemplating Beethoven’s 7th.
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When art goes wrong, we get a philistine welter of empty prettiness or an arid desert of conceptualism.
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You could be sour about the music industry if you wanted to be. But the musicians’ union has a lot to answer for.
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Tending the Gardens of Music, Part I
There will always be a type that can’t reconcile himself to the fact that classical music will always be a minority taste.
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To Orchestrate a Renaissance
Paradoxically, while our civilization grows old, it is our past that we label as aged and the day itself as eternally young.
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The Mozart Effect
The notion that music has properties and powers that can sharpen the mind and transform the soul is ancient.
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The Concertgebouw Experience
“It’s not only the music that should be sublime – everything about Concertgebouw should be sublime.”
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Postwar modernism and its hip progeny is pushing classical music into the corner as a “museum culture.”
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Selling music in wrapping paper which belies its nature will inevitably lead to disappointment.
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Organizations wanting to extract immense value from their brands must, like Wagner, work as polymaths.