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| | Babel: Roundtable: May 1999: The State of Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Music is really only "sold" to people who have participated in it in some way at some point in their lives. |
 | | In classical music, where the issue was once primarily one of shared intimacy of the musical experience, and spiritual or intellectual contemplation, today what matters, it seems, is the fame of the performer. |
 | | Their interest in classical music was ephemeral, spurred on only by his illness and fame, like some sort of carnival act. |
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