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Classical Music is Still Alive
The last time I went to a chamber music concert I looked around at the audience and saw only gray hair. Not only was it very gray, the people attached to the hair were quite old. What will happen to classical music, I thought? Will it completely disappear? Where is the audience? Nowadays, whenever the word music is used, it generally refers to pop music. I grew up in an era when all music was every one's music. Yes, there was classical and popular music, but most people listened to both forms and didn't think much about it. Music was music. All of it. Movies used classical music and the radio broadcast it along with jazz, big band, folk, Broadway, etc. It wasn't until the rock music and culture became dominant that the different forms of music seemed to become divided into classifications that separated each from the other. At least, that is how it seems to me. Now you can have a radio station devoted to a dozen different music genres that I have no knowledge about and wouldn't know one from the other. The audience for each kind of music may differ, but, totally, it has a much larger audience than classical music. I can't discuss anything about the music business because I don't know anything about it. I can only reflect on my own experience and the anxiety I have felt about what I perceived to be a loss. This weekend, I visited Carnegie Mellon Conservatory where my granddaughter, who is a music student majoring in flute performance, was giving a concert for her junior recital. I do have a bias, it's true. The the young people in my family are interested in all forms of music and happen to play classical and jazz. During my visit I was very gratified when I clearly saw for myself, that at least in this place, not only is there an audience for classical music, there is a very large and talented group of young people who are playing it and appreciating it as well. Audition week was in full swing and the place was teeming with young people eager and ready to play their instruments in the hope of being selected to attend this prestigious school. The hotels near the school were filled with aspiring young musicians. It truly gratified me to see such a large body of talented young students wanting to make a career in music, and also being groomed as the audience of tomorrow. I don't know whether it will be possible for them to succeed in this, but it gave me hope. I guess, although the grey heads still greatly outnumber the youngsters at many classical concerts, I now feel the possibility of a different music scene is not an optimistic dream. |
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