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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: relieving my excruciation by rising with yells of fury and hurling
their programs and opera glasses at the miscreant, behaved just as
they do when Richter conducts it. The mass of imposture that thrives
on this combination of ignorance with despairing endurance is
incalculable. Given a public trained from childhood to stand anything
tedious, and so saturated with school discipline that even with the
doors open and no schoolmasters to stop them they will sit there
helplessly until the end of the concert or opera gives them leave to
go home; and you will have in great capitals hundreds of thousands of
pounds spent every night in the season on professedly artistic
entertainments which have no other effect on fine art than to
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