73. Rosenberg 3.2 Not Violin Music = "I detested virtuosity and its attendant features from the very beginning, I..."

With a rare recording (while the y2b fan post is still up) by Glenn Gould, almost never played on classical music radio and certainly not at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio services.

Written May 5, 2015 Posted on the official Rosenberg Museum facebook page May 20, 2015

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New Stuff Introduction:

In my youth, what is described in the first sentence is what my father called “showoffs”. Due to our family’s poverty, I came to understand the word wasn’t just his personal taste in disliking egoism, but now I believe it also reflected monies being sent from the taxpayers to the government to high art organizations such as symphony orchestras and fine art galleries and university music students. “Community participation” only allowed him one or twice a year to take us four brothers to a free pops concert for the whole family and no more. I do however remember his making sure we joined him for military march parades (he was a 25 year civil employee of the Department of National Defens…