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Posted by Sick Rose on 2023-January-5 20:04:28, Thursday
In reply to Re: Points taken. posted by Boychoirholic on 2023-January-5 17:27:10, Thursday
I'll listen to at least one of those links.

I don't have anything against sweetness per se -- Schumann's Traumerei is sweet and achingly beautiful -- that any musical kid with two years of piano lessons can play it doesn't detract at all from its beauty. It's a masterpiece of nostalgia. Here is Horowitz playing it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU_ccvjxq6o

Nor does the Kings College Choir singing "Silent Night" or "Jesus Christ the Apple Tree" bother me all -- just the reverse, actually. (I gag a bit on "Once in Royal David's City" -- that IS borderline saccharine.)

Saccharine sentimentality, well yes, that's dishonesty in art -- the emotion evoked isn't earned. But we'll see.

I do encounter periodic references here to Libera -- you're not the only fan, ha ha!

SR
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