If Bruno Walter’s life had a rationale more formal than the discipline brought by music, it was his deep and deeply felt humanism. Goethe had a high place in his personal pantheon, and Goethe’s concept of “natural man vs. corrupting society” probably reinforced Walter’s strong anti-mechanistic tendencies. He was suspicious of anything containing more working parts than a baton [...] A close association with Bruno Walter was necessarily a rich one. Defined by music, it was also constructed with kindness, humor, and morality in its profoundest sense all measured in the different life pulse of a now vanished world, a world of savored time where a Bruckner symphony was a pleasure too quickly spent [...] （全文完） -- 转贴好文 换小广告一篇 请社员们这几天若有空 请到台大正门了解或连署支持"声援建诚"的活动 希望台湾的舆论能够帮助在香港处於不平等地位的政治四同学李建诚 谢谢各位！！ --

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