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Classical music and mass appeal…

by James Bash on March 7, 2010

The Times of London reports on what the cognoscenti in the UK say about making classical music more appealing to the masses. Some suggestions are old, some are new, some are bold, some are blue… In the meantime, the world’s most influential classical music critic, Alex Ross, will deliver the annual Royal Philharmonic Society lecture at Wigmore Hall in London on Monday evening (March 8). His lecture is called Inventing and Reinventing the Classical Concert. Now that would be a lecture worth hearing.


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2 Responses to “Classical music and mass appeal…”

  1. gsw Graham Smith-White says:
    March 8, 2010 at 8:02 am

    He’s not talking about reinventing the classical concert as punishment, is he?

    http://reason.com/archives/2010/02/24/weoponizing-mozart

    OR

    Maybe it’s just for social control.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4154711.stm

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  2. jbash James Bash says:
    March 8, 2010 at 12:02 pm

    Hi Graham,

    Hopefully, he’ll talk about it’s positive qualities. But he might adress the issues you’ve mentioned and allude to Kubrick’s use of Beethoven in “A Clockwork Orange.” You never know.

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jbash James Bash

James Bash writes articles for a variety of publications, including magazines such as Opera America, Open Spaces, Opera, MUSO, International Arts Manager, American Record Guide, Symphony, Opera Canada, and PSU Magazine. The newspapers include Crosscut, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Oregonian, The Columbian, The Portland Tribune, The Register-Guard, and Willamette Week. James has also written a number of articles for the Oregon Arts Commission. James was a fellow to the 2008 NEA Journalism Institute for Classical Music and Opera. He is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America (mcana.org) and lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Kathy.



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