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Drama
Lewisohn, Ludwig | January 17, 1920 issue

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The rigid mind resists art. Not, to be sure, all the arts. In music, where medium and substance are identical, each temperament may catch the echo of its own mood. One man, listening to the andante of Ludwig van Beethoven's twenty-third sonata, will hear the austere resignation of a great and lonely mind, another will interpret that majesty and sweetness in a different fashion and see the sky break and show the silver of angelic plumage. But literature is built upon ideas and the drama projects ideas in terms of concrete living. Thus the same people will patronize good music and flock to foolish plays.

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MUSIC; BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van, 1770-1827; ENTERTAINERS; SONATA; DRAMA; PERFORMING arts
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