A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense -… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition. — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise. — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered. — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
