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Originally posted by TeinosukeIndeed an excellent point. No one would ever argue that reading Cicero is to be shunned because he lived 2K+ years ago. Few things are as enjoyable as beholding a Raphael, Signorelli, reading Ariosto, Dante, Canterbury Tales, Sheakespeare, some of these if only to marvel at the incredible artistry of writing, painting, the creativity of ancient musicians like Purcell, Vecchi, Monteverdi. Exploring the old helps appreciate the newer and sometimes even the avant garde. I stumbled upon Orazio Vecchi and his incredible opera/madrigal L'Amfiparnasso(1597), predating Iacopo Peri's Dafne by seven years. I feel I can enjoy the ancient and the new. And, talking about old, I have searched high and low for Wagner's Requiem for Carla Maria von Weber based on themes from Euryanthe and cannot find anything at all. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm not so interested in short films from the 1890s, and I think that some decent films still get made in the 21st century, but I do think most of the cinema's real masterpieces were made between about 1920 and 1980. Really, the trouble started once television displaced cinema as the main medium of entertainment, at which point, filmmakers started resortin and listened to an old string quartet by Mozart and looked at an old painting by Raphael."
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