• Problems of classical music in these times

    From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 2 10:38:50 2022
    Could they be due to capitalism?

    - Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

    Daniel De Leon

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Wed Nov 2 10:40:54 2022
    On Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 10:38:51 AM UTC-7, gggg gggg wrote:
    Could they be due to capitalism?

    - Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

    Daniel De Leon

    - For it cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression--at least, not in the beginning--and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.

    Dvorak

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