Re: Is CM in decline?

Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 14:47:52 GMT
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Matthew B. Tepper (posts from uswest.net are forged) wrote in message ...
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>> In the USA, classical music and art is dead, except, with a few
>> exceptions, for a tiny slice of society mostly older and moneyed folks.
>> I imagine this society slice who foatered our music was similar in
>> Mozart's time. If so, maybe not quite so dead. Its dead to the masses.
When I was first becoming interested in serious music (late teens much later
than many on this newsgroup) I read a long article in the Chicago Daily
News. The article viewed with alarm the "graying" of the audience for the
Chicago Symphony, the Lyric Opera and other performing/producing
organizations. If I recall, the conclusion was that soon these gray heads
would be taking their final rest and since there were no younger audience
being created the CSO, Lyric and various chamber music groups would have
fewer and fewer people to play to.
The CSO and the Lyric have weathered that storm, several others and may even
make it through this economic crisis.
The Chicago Daily News closed down years ago.