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Is there no contradiction on driving to a concert in a car and then listening to Bach on replicas of eighteenth-century instruments in an air-conditioned atmosphere under sophisticated electric lighting? Or listening to a Beethoven symphony on a CD set?



—John Borstlap, The Classical Revolution: Thoughts on New Music in the 21st Century
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