Vulgar words in Old Scores and New Readings - Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians (Page 1)
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The dramatic oratorio is a hybrid form of art--one might almost say a bastard form; it had only about thirty years of life; but in those thirty years Handel accomplished wonderful things with it.
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The very fact of there being such wide disagreement about the value of music that is now so familiar to us all, points to some weakness in it which some of us feel less than others; and I, poor unhappy mortal, who in my unexcited moments neither place Schubert among the highest gods, like Liszt and Sir George Grove, nor damn him cordially, like Wagner and Mr. Shaw, cannot help perceiving that along with much that is magnificently strong, distinguished, and beautiful in his music, there is much that is pitiably weak, and worse than commonplace.