the misfortune of superabundance

[graydon]

And, lastly, I want to speak of the greatest danger of all that menaces music in Germany; there is too much music in Germany. This is not a paradox. There is no worse misfortune for art than a super-abundance of it. The music is drowning the musicians. Festival succeeds festival: the day after the Strasburg festival there was to be a Bach

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[lindseykuper]

cf. "Ten Reasons Why Conference Papers Should Be Abolished".