Christopher Webber wrote:

>I actually met someone the other day who apologised - yes apologised!  -
>for loving this most loveable and unsinkably marvellous of all the great
>symphonies.

"Initium sapientiae est amor Dvoraki".  Badly deserves our company a
man who needs permission for loving what is, indeed, loveable.  It's true
that Dvorak's 9th has been victim of its own popularity, but I think also
that the whole work of Dvorak has been often victim of a certain musical
monogamy, which is not far from ignorance.  I heard, once, this blasphemy:
"Having Brahms, what do we need Dvorak for?".

Pablo Massa
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