Steve Schwartz <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>Walter Meyer replying to Robert Peters makes some interesting points:
>
>>Can you explain why you would not be able to listen to Mozart's g minor
>>quintet (K516) "without giving credit to the fact that we listen to a
>>musical testimony of the past", assuming that you, like me, consider the
>>work a sublime masterpiece?
>
>One reason is because through continual exposure, we've become very
>familiar with Mozart's and Bach's musical language.

But at some point, before we were exposed to it frequently, it was new
to us, regardless of when it was composed.  With great art, one is not
reminded of its time, but of its timelessness.

Jocelyn Wang
Culver Chamber Music Series
www.bigfoot.com/~CulverMusic