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I know Stravinsky is more recent.
But the fact remains that an awful lot of people have violins, horns and all the rest, and they all have methods to so-called "mastery" that can make one fall prey to the kinds of problems we are talking about. Anything that is a known and mass-produced instrument will have an awful lot of practitioners, not just guitar.
I was just speaking to the tiredness of the same classical pieces being trotted out year after year for decades or centuries with extremely minimal "interpretations" being done by the conductor or musicians. Honestly, a lot of times it's like reading a book for the 80th time and simply having one or two different words being given italics or bold print in each chapter.
And in any case, I wasn't trying to make you defend your position or anything, I was just making a little jab.
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I am making no value judgments on classical music, though most of it simply does not speak to me on a deep and resonant level and I find it difficult to connect with in anything other than an academic way most of the time. A powerful piece of music should have fans and torchbearers hundreds of years later; any musician would be so lucky to have their work survive for so long.
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