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       2024-01-07T16:23:22.095845Z
       
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       Just listened to (((Mendelssohn's))) Symphony No. 2, Op. 52 "Hymn of Praise" which https://theclassicalstation.org/ played as part of its "Great" Sacred Music Sunday program, and ... no.While it's not the usual later Modern period Jewish "sacred" caterwauling, and it's not bad enough to make me play something else, it's not even good.While Mendelssohn did write at least one gem in his music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, I think I now understand why fellow Romantic period Wager, who I'm not sure wrote anything (surviving) that wasn't "great," was so critical of him.