"If performers, who are the very people who mediate between new music and musical life in its broader sense, were to refuse to participate, the upshot would only be to help neutralise new art and turn it into the cultural property of experts, thereby increasing the general indifference toward it. Even though productive artists must refrain from casting amorous glances at the public, they cannot remain wholly indifferent to a complete lack of resonance."
'New Music, Interpretation, Audience' T. Adorno