Klarinet Archive - Posting 001202.txt from 1998/07

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet Column
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 22:42:49 -0400

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Eugene Chan wrote:

> I'm writing an article for the Toronto Star on why teenagers are turning
> away from classical music.

Are you sure that they are turning away from classical music? I graduated
from high school in 1955, from a school which had a good music tradition,
and I was the only person in my school who had an interest in classical
music. How could they be turning away from it more than that?

In the interest of fairness and accuracy, you ought to write another
article about teenagers who are very much involved in classical music -
and there are tens of thousands of them.

I'm not unaware of the plight of "classical" music in our society, but a
lot of the hand-wringing and agonizing about the situation is based too
much on anecdotal evidence.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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