Hell is filled with amateur musicians

Description:Discussing quality in traditional orchestra performances can often be an activity closed to anyone except the most engaged listeners, critics and musicologists. Music sociologist Theodor Adorno remarks that the musical amateur ran into difficulties during the period of the dismantling of traditional European aristocracy: But the aesthetic and social underpinning has changed so much that it is now difficult to make sense of relations between roles within the system. Amateurism also holds an emancipatory power, giving permission to let go of the restraints of professionalism — an emancipation which is so important for social, economical and technological developments in music, making the move from result to process possible. But this music is about much more than humour.

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