Klarinet Archive - Posting 001237.txt from 1998/07

From: gareth.bowen@-----.nz (Gareth Bowen)
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet Column
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 23:00:21 -0400

Chris Hoffman said:
"Unfortunately, in my neck of the woods, students put down classical music. It
is really a shame how one could be so close-minded."

I agree completely with you Chris! I am 18 and enjoy listening to
classical, jazz, rock, in fact anything but most rap or country music. All
my friends and my brothers detest both classical and jazz and will only
listen to their genre of music. In fact the only way I've found to get
away from this sort of closed-mindedness is to surround myself with other
serious musicians who seem to be able to accept almost any sort of music.
I am now unable to play my clarinet in front of my brothers because they
hate the music I play on it.

I also don't feel that young people are turning away from classical music
but rather that this type of music has never been any more popular to
teenagers than it is now - at least in my lifetime.

Mandy Williams said:
"It is just unfortunate that classical music isn't promoted as much or it
would have the appeal that the alternative bands do"

I agree with this too. It seems to me that what ever gets heard on the
radio the most gets the most people buying the album. This is why CD
promotion companies give radio stations free copies of CD's to play on the
air. Unfortunately young people want something that is new and fresh - not
by a 16th century composer who has been dead and buried for centuries.

Maybe this will all change soon and us classical lovers will be the "cool"
guys on campus but I think that I'm hoping for a liitle too large a
miracle...

Gareth Bowen New Zealand
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/5220
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