Yes, the clichees are true, awfully so : – eg. about the Limes, ” I Romani never swam in the Elbe ” etc.
In 2013 I must – I will, in this ( too, too ) cozy corner explore : Hamburg And Music / Why Lutoslawski´s 100 th. Birthday Is As Swill To Swine …
An ecological necessity.
No Hamburger has compositional ” passion”, musical curiosity. Dead from the waist down. ( – Just before publishing this , I´ve e-mailed Johannes Brahms from Altona ! )
The usual ” Pepper-sack” Argument is trotted out – it suffices not.
e.g.
Who has ever proved that the Genom Hanseaticum is a priori anti-music ?
Why ( if it does happen to be so ) ?
I´ll take Hamburg , the 1770 s, pre-Napoleon, their Churches´ Leaders´ Musical Shenannigans ?
Etc. etc., then we´ll have to take Hamburg before / within/ after its Nazi Tollabawns ? And yet . N.B.
This is relevant to my initial question: why is your Hamburg lost to New Music ?
Hmmm. Must mull. Many variables.
The Roots Of Intellectual Laziness, such comic themes. Perennially fresh.