I play music for a living, so I know why symphony orchestras play the same war horses again and again.
I won't pay to see Beethoven's 5th, but would jump at the chance for the 4th.
Dvorak's 9th is nice, but so are 5, 6, 7 and 8.
How about Arensky? Borodin? Fikret Amirov? and so many others with great but yet accessible symphonies? Mix them in with a warhorse and perhaps you will enrich someone's life.
But like I said. I play music for a living that means commercial music. So I have a collection of about 600 CDs that when I reach the final chord of my coda, nobody is going to want to inherit.
Such is the state of the arts.
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