Classical Music, Aging Audiences, and the Emerging Demographic Racial Gap
I had come across an old (May 17, 2007) New York Times piece by Sam Roberts yesterday while doing some searches for the Aging Audience of Classical Music issue. The […]
Tag Archives: Western Classical Music
Are Orchestra Musicians Replaceable?
Drew McManus pointed out a piece written by Michaela Boland which had some interesting quotes by Greg Sandow with whom I don’t necessarily agree on many points though he is […]
Too Many Notes, too few orchestras
While reading the comments to a post by Drew McManus that I mentioned in my previous post, I came across a reference to a post that drew had written about […]
“…he has no European blood in his veins to make sense of our European repertoire…”
The quote in the title is from a comment made by a poster to a recent article in Slate about the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s current search for a new conductor […]
“Eurocentrism? We Aren’t The World” by Jon Pareles
Can’t believe this was written over twenty years ago: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/23/arts/pop-view-eurocentrism-we-aren-t-the-world.html excerpt: What does this have to do with music? Plenty. Music, popular and classical, is a potent cultural symbol, one […]
