The existing Facebook fora ("Groups") dedicated to Classical Music recordings and general discussion have large *active* constituencies, some measuring in the thousands+, which include generalist fans, professional musicians, scholars, composers [!], and lovers of recorded classical music. And MWI would in my opinion be a welcome, interactive presence in such a forum on Facebook.
My two cents worth, from a loyal and dedicated reader of Music Web International *and* the Facebook classical music Groups!
Well, I am certainly guilty of that besetting sin when it comes to discussing what I perceive as the decline of operatic voices, but in many ways orchestral and chamber music have never been better served - and the problem with recorded music is that we are spoilt for choice with catalogues saturated with first class recordings going back decades, such that anything new is up against it. There is still a preponderance of grey, white or bald at concerts but no; classical music is by no means the preserve of those with one foot in the grave, I do agree.
I suggest maybe that rather than the MB being 'dead', possibly a majority of its erstwhile contributors are physically or metaphorically in that state!
As the father of a 'classical' music student, I can assure you all that our passion is very much alive and well, but so differently expressed and consumed by the current generation. I could go on and on about this, but I would single out that what least impresses or distracts them is our ramblings, as so often found on the MB, that "things ain't wot they used to be".
I appreciate that there is a certain solipsistic irony in my posting this question if no-one is actually reading it, but given that comments here have virtually dried up, I am just wondering: have people nothing to ask, observe or debate in this medium any more? Other fora seem to attract quite lively discussion - as indeed, we have in the past - but several weeks have passed without a squeak; are all we music-lovers shrouded in benighted indifference?
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