Is classical music and its appreciation somewhat of a dying art?
I wouldn’t say it’s a dying art, but I would say that it has to compete in people’s superficially busy multitasking lives. I say superficial because it’s too easy to say, “I’ve done a million things, that I’ve done these errands while at the same time I was on my BlackBerry and drinking a cup of coffee.” If you really drill down deeply, what have you accomplished? Music and dance demand time. They unfold over a period of time, and in most classical music instances, it’s longer than a rock or pop song’s two minutes and 30 seconds. It requires paragraphs, the way a novel does. We think there is a tremendous benefit in developing attention spans but even more deeply in exploring genuine human emotion, these peak experiences like when our child is born, when we fall in love, when we see Venice for the first time. These are moments that are burned into your brain, and music captures these. Getting back to the root of your question, I think the way people want their music delivered is changi
