Feelings on tap?

I just started reading Listen to This, a collection of edited essays by New Yorker classical music critic Alex Ross.  As I sit down to write a presentation for next week, with all of Bach's music on shuffle, one quote from Ross' introduction pricks my conscience:  "For even as we worship our musical idols we also force them to produce particular emotions on cue."  Guilty as charged?

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