I've posted the new first chunk of my book, Rebirth: The Future of Classical Music.  Comments on it are welcome. Long-time readers know I've been working on this book for quite a while, and that drafts of it have appeared here earlier. But what's on the blog now is the final version. Only a little to start, but there's a larger second chunk coming shortly. In the book, I'm saying that our culture has changed, that classical music hasn't kept up, that this is why there's a classical music crisis, and that the only solution to the crisis is to … [Read more...]