[ARSCLIST] What was/is "The Golden Age" ?

[Roger and Allison Kulp <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>]

This topic came up the other day on the Google Classical Recording list.The topic was "golden age pianism".The idea was that Emile Von Sauer,and his contempories were golden age pianism,and Van Cliburn and his contempories were not.Over the  years,I have heard the term "golden age" applied to virtually everything from early piano rolls to early stereo Lps.Is there a clear definition,or is  this all a bunch of BS ? If there is to be such a deliniation,why not borrow the golden/silver/bronze age classification from comic book collecting ?
                              Opening another can of worms,
                                      Roger

       
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