Re: Re: Are orchestras dying?


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Posted by Leland on October 25, 2000 at 23:49:24:

In Reply to: Re: Are orchestras dying? posted by Andy Miller on October 24, 2000 at 22:00:16:

Excellent point -- that's like looking at old trees and wondering what would happen to the forest when they die off.

I'm wondering -- since when have pops concerts been a New Concept? Hasn't all the music that was once new and cutting edge been sorted out into pops (commercially viable) and esoteric (small crowds)? I won't believe that an orchestra in 1900 shied away from playing Mozart and Brahms.

I would include Rite Of Spring in the "pops" category, thanks in no small part to Disney. Almost everyone has heard it, even if they don't know the title. And they will go see it, even though it is some of the most abusive noise to come off a stage with acoustic instruments -- and they love it.

Oh yeah -- Mozart was "pops" material when he was alive. He HAD to write for the general public (even if it was upper-class general public).


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