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Post Subject: Why people don't like BrucknerPosted by clarkjohnsen on: 12/16/2010
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I think this relates to the diminishing popularity of baseball. Yes. Baseball is "America's National Pastime"... and called that for good reason. The operative word is "pastime". Baseball properly speaking is not a sport (nor is cricket for that matter) -- sport being that where action happens -- but rather a way for people to spend fine time together in a leisurely manner. Dreadfully old-fashioned, old chap!
Modern life demands speed and variety and short segments. None of that, in Bruckner. Granted you can find those aspects in many great composers, but few besides Bruckner dare to forego almost entirely the crowd-pleasing calisthenics.
Go, Anton!
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