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Posted by Ford on November 4, 2005, 7:01 am, in reply to "Re: Reviving "classical" music"
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Well, of course, when I suggested a serious treatment of Britney Spears, I was only being provocative (or was I?). My post was really about possible ways to revive interest in "art music". This is probably not of interest to composers who disdain popularity, and would rather have their work vanish into obscurity as soon as the ink is dry. Call it nostalgia, if you will, but I'd like to live in a time when, as in the 19th century, the audience prefered new music to old; when the finale of Tchaikovsky's 4th had the audience literally jumping up and down on their seats; when Verdi had to go to great lengths to stop his tunes being prematurely leaked; when living composers were more famous than (most of) their dead counterparts. I don't think this is at all possible until composers reject the confines of academic inbreeding, and try to engage directly with the society in which they live. (This does NOT mean doing an Andrew Lloyd Webber.)
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