ABSTRACT
It is no wonder that young persons bridle at formalism in concert halls and museums, but their rejection of what appears to them to be an arbitrarily imposed condition of quiet or awe at cultural presentations most seriously affects innovative efforts in art. By comparison, standard patterns and the repetition of familiar items in well-known idioms will not suffer. After all, the audience is undergoing a form of reminiscence in the latter situation. The materials are familiar; the level of redundancy is high. It is the expansion of experience that suffers from inattention and attacks on the formalism of cultural contexts.
