«Baroqueux,» more than mere prosaic observers - or apologetic defenders - of music before 1789, historic pitch, refurbished and replicated instruments or technical performance, they are engaged with the human dimension and capacity for genius, subtlety and jouissance.
This is not necessarily a safe place: it is a place of resistance to mediocrity and the banal.
I do not know if it allows for respite.
To paraphrase a contemporary preëminent baroqueux, You get it, or you don’t!
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