What is so special about classical music? How does it work the particular WAY it does?
A. Virtually EVERYONE enjoys music. Music is THE most popular art form expressing passion when words are not enough. It’s regular patterns of beats and harmony allow for singing and dancing… humankind’s FIRST forms of entertainment! Musical languages developed along WITH spoken languages. With the literal EXPLOSION of entertainment technology we have today, MANY have access to an overwhelming CHOICE of musical genres and styles, instruments and performers. These TOGETHER LIVE and PLAY and get us worked up into our FAVORITE MOODS! We feel that our favorite music SPEAKS FOR US and that it could quite possibly SAVE THE WORLD! This is what our grandparents wanted for us, right? More choices? More happiness? More FREEDOMS! Well… why would ANY musician who grew up on popular soul, rock, jazz CHOOSE to pursue something as ANCIENT as CLASSICAL music? Well, never mind my conviction that even the last bass player in a 100-piece orchestra STILL has a lot of ARTISTIC CHOICES… even in a TOP 1
