Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-10-29 19:38
Some of that serialist music put me off, too, but maybe the classical world has reacted to rejection of atonal music by retreating into self-fulfilling prophecies. If we assume Nuke Laloosh wouldn't like Mozart, then he'll pick up on that attitude as a form of social rejection and he probably won't like Mozart because he thinks Mozart doesn't like him. (You know how we react if we're in the subway and we see somebody muttering and glaring at us. We keep our distance.) But, "Build it and they will come" seems to me to work pretty well, as long as "they" don't detect a snooty attitude of, "They're all a bunch of Philistines. They wouldn't like it or understand it anyway."
Early this Fall, "Opera in the Outfield" performances were well attended in Washington, D.C. These were Kennedy Center live opera performances simulcast into the baseball stadium, where people could wear casual clothes and eat during the opera.
I've found it easy to introduce classical music to kids in my family and among friends. All I do is play a CD without saying anything about it except, "Here's something I like a lot." I don't tell the kids they ought to like it or they'd be better people if they liked it or they're ignorant if they don't already know about it or any of that elitist crap. I just play the music. It speaks for itself. Typical reaction: a man then in his early twenties, who arrived here several years ago as a houseguest unable to pronounce the name "Tchaikovsky," went home with the beginning of a classical music collection and has been adding to it ever since.
P.S.--Go Giants!
Lelia
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