“By ‘a good audience,’ an artist means, in the first place, a crowd that is receptive, easily roused, which unresistingly succumbs to mass suggestion, whatever the actual musical standard of its members. But an audience may be very cultured musically and yet be ‘bad,’ namely frosty, critical and fault-finding.”
Carl Flesch, Memoirs (trans. Hans Keller)
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