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Why Did the Audience Boo This Glorious Symphony?

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Why Did the Audience Boo This Glorious Symphony?
Gustav Mahler rehearsing the New York Philharmonic in 1910. Public Domain
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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It’s a trope of Western culture that we want meaning from the turn of one century to another. We have the salient sense that the past is left behind and a new era is opening. Intense curiosity prevails about what is next. This desire can take the form of apocalyptic prediction (remember the panic about Y2K?), technological speculation, and artistic ambition.

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Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Author
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]