The concert hall environment used to be a practical approach to hearing the music, now is a traditional approach, but due to technology of the past 50-100 years

The concert hall environment used to be a practical approach to hearing the music, now is a traditional approach, but due to technology of the past 50-100 years is no longer needed. I'm a super+++ fan of classical music from a little before Bach through Wagner and some since him. E.g., the end of the Republican National Convention had a live performance of Nessum Dorma with none of the environment, e.g., the singer was not on the main stage. I like classical music as art with the definition "communication, interpretation of human experience, emotion", and according to that definition to me that music has some astounding examples. For Bach, okay, at one point I wanted to convert over from listening to the music to playing some of it, got a violin (easier to carry than a piano), some lessons (Indiana University, where I was a math grad student, with a terrific music school) and got through most of the famous E major Partita and, transposed up for violin, the famous cello piece. Both are very popular sometimes in surprising circumstances, e.g., the cello piece was used in an ad selling bathtubs! Tough to put either piece into words, but a rough attempt is: They start with something simple, not very emotional, but suggesting someone beginning something challenging. Then the pieces move forward with some changes in different parts of the scale but with the rhythm slowly changing as if the person's experience was progressing, developing, but in a way that was close to clockwork, maybe driven, no big interruptions or distractions, even irresistible and inevitable. But in both cases the development leads to a climax of some success or, for the cello piece, some grand success. Well, from that a listener can conclude that they are not the only one progressing on some situation that has some irresistible challenge and ending with a victory. The grand case of this, in words, roughly, moving ahead on a challenge, having a sweet, happy victory (2/3rds of the way through), having a catharsis after the victory, and then slowly reaching a deeply understood resolution is, of course, the Chaconne. It was written for solo violin but is taken seriously in transcriptions for piano and full orchestra -- there is a good Stokowski performance; he seems to really understand the music and presents a good, expressive version. So, I like the music for the effectiveness of the art. Uh, in summary, to write music like, as good as, Bach's have to write not just in his style but with comparable effectiveness in his art. The tough part is the art, not just the style.