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Leon Botstein (Richard Termine)
Twenty years ago, Leon Botstein started the annual Bard Music Festival. This year the festival focuses on the Viennese modernist Alban Berg. Botstein pitches Berg's difficult, dissonant work to audiences who normally can't stand 20th-century music. He tells Kurt that music suffers from "masterpiece syndrome", which keeps attention off of lesser-known artists — and prevents audiences from understanding them.
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Leon Botstein
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You are correct that people don't like "intellectuals" because they typically think they are correct treat those who disagree as morally inferior.
However, I do not find intellectuals to be any more tolerant of ambiguity than [whatever the opposite of intellectual is]. On the contrary, I find those with eloquence and education to back up their opinions to be at least as opinionated as those who arrive at their opinions through other avenues and just as often in error.
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