[lbo-talk] The Death of Classical Music (da capo, con, brio)

[Tim Francis-Wright]

Dennis Claxton wrote:
> People like watching sports because they know what's going on in the 
> game.  Classical music's keepers haven't done a very good job of 
> engaging with people for some time.  You're supposed to like 
> classical music because it's good for you?  That's not a very 
> inviting reason.

Yes, but if it were simply about cluing potential fans into what is
going on, then concerts would be doing more poorly than they are and
CD sales would be doing well.   It is easy to put all sorts of
illuminating material into the liner notes of a CD.  In a concert hall,
on the other hand, the lights dim when the music starts.  It is
bad form to shuffle papers while the orchestra plays, and worse form
to ask the maestro to go back a few bars so you can hear the main
theme being played by the woodwinds.

--tim francis-wright