[contextly_auto_sidebar id="5nBcUoGIheS273PWwhCDYtux2AmfpHYR"] In my last post I said that I’m now not happy talking about the decline of classical music. That post was a striking anecdotal report about falling ticket sales at European music festivals, which in the past I would have offered as evidence of decline. But now, as I said, I’d rather say that classical music is changing. Changing, not fading. Not declining. And certainly not dying. Still, the fading of the old ways — though not classical music itself — is worth chronicling. … [Read more...]
The change continues
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="8iJ0uEslRrXHZQexVPJKHRbbIjYPUZOg"] I used to call it the decline of classical music — the aging, shrinking audience, the mounting financial woes. But now I’d rather call it the change. The old ways fade, becoming unsustainable. New ways of doing things emerge, and begin to define our future. Though this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t still catalogue the change. One place you can find a catalogue of changes, as the old ways fade — changes going back decades — is a blog post of mine called “Timeline of the … [Read more...]