Check out this great article from Heather Mac Donald, the John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, on living in Classical Music's "New Golden Age." Enjoy!
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
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What an absolutely biased and depressing article this is! To state that the public "finds little emotional significance in most contemporary classical music" and that the remedy for declining audiences for historical music is to find and program even more
ReplyDeletehistorical music is unbelievably myopic! Is the writer not aware that she has gleefully marginalized the symphony orchestra by defining it as nothing more than a musical museum? How long would a book publisher, art gallery or even a movie theater survive if the business model was to seek out aging underexposed products and repackage them for contemporary sudiences?
In music, as with all art forms, there is no substitute for the relevance of art created by living composers for living audiences. While it is sad that the Nashville Symphony finds this to ba "a great article," it does explain your persistent reluctance to program composers who are guilty of breathing.
But, go and excavate your underperformed Gluck with my blessing. I shall miss the Nashville Symphony when it is gone - but not very much.