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A famous manager once said to me, as he pointed to an empty house, "Thepublic is amazing. Give them what they like, and they don't come!" One day I was walking in a garden. There was a bandstand and musicianswere playing some sort of music. The crowd was indifferent and passed bytalking without paying the slightest attention. Suddenly there soundedthe first notes of the delightful _andante_ of Beethoven's _Symphony inD_--a flower of spring with a delicate perfume. At the first notes allwalking ...and talking stopped. And the crowd stood motionless and in analmost religious silence as it listened to the marvel. When the piecewas over, I went out of the garden, and near the entrance I heard one ofthe managers say, "There, you see they don't like that kind of music. And that kind of music was never played there again. CHAPTER IX ANARCHY IN MUSIC Music is as old as human nature. We can get some idea of what it was atfirst from the music of savage tribes. There were a few notes andrudimentary melodies with blows struck in cadence as an accompaniment;or, sometimes, the same primitive rhythms without any accompaniment--andnothing else!
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