Albert Barnes’s Grouchy Letters To Leopold Stokowski Make For New Barnes Foundation-Philadelphia Orchestra Joint Project

“[The collector] referred to Mahler’s ‘spectacular banalities,’ Wagner’s ‘voluptuous debauches,’ and Weber’s ‘inanities.’ … ‘Why give us so much … that nourishes the idle, the ignorant, the lazy, the debauche, to whom in music the only thing is the cheap emotional orgy?” Yes, the Barnes and the Philadelphians are building two programs out of this — and they should be good ones.

Article source here:Arts Journal