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Charles Rosen Quotes

Type:
Musician Quotes
Category:
American Musician Quotes
Date of Birth:
May 5, 1927
Nationality:
American
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A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
Charles Rosen

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.
Charles Rosen

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
Charles Rosen

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.
Charles Rosen


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