“…and it never occurred to me that musical tastes and offerings will change as demographics change…”

So today, as I mentioned last week is a cello sectional coaching day, but I was so distracted by thoughts about the current DSO situation that I found it hard to concentrate at the task at hand.   What I also had on my mind, in light of the recent piece I rediscovered and blogged about … Continue reading “…and it never occurred to me that musical tastes and offerings will change as demographics change…”

Changing US Demographics and Classical Music

The title here could just as easily have read "Changing US Demographics and Music" but it is the title of a blog that Ramon Ricker had posted some time ago.  Mainly the realization that the population on the streets of Amsterdam looke nothing like the audience he was seeing at a Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra concert … Continue reading Changing US Demographics and Classical Music