"The time has come for concerts without music; silent concerts, equivalent to what is still life in painting. Concerts in which listeners, sitting in comfortable armchairs and surrounded by silence, will mentally listen to the music that each one prefers. What is the most serious flaw of the concerts? To have fixed and equal programs for everyone. Many times we have to listen to music that either doesn't interest us at all or is even unbearable, just because in the program there is also music dear to our heart and pleasing to our ear. (Private Concert, pp. 186-187)"
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