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Author: HAT
Date: 2002-08-31 02:50
In Friday's (8/30) Christian Science Monitor, Gregory M. Lamb writes that
The Juilliard School is "the most difficult college to get into (that
doesn't prepare students to defend America's coast)," noting that
"competition is so intense that just 9 percent of applicants are accepted
each year." Writes Lamb, "Some 400 private youth orchestra alone are home to
50,000 young classical musicians.... In a world where the TV and radio
airwaves are filled with the sounds of Eminem and Lil' Kim, not Mendelssohn
and Mahler, they're committing themselves to an art form that some say has
an uncertain future." He writes, "As the audience for classical music grays
and sales of classical recordings slide, a look at a sampling of these young
players reveals a brighter picture: Musicians who are in love with and
committed to performing the music that has helped define Western
civilization over the centuries."
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Author: Brian Peterson
Date: 2002-08-31 15:30
It's great to hear of young musicians in love with and committed to thier art, but I see the ominous signs and wonder what the state of classical music will be in twenty or thirty years, especially in smaller cities and locales.
Heard from my teacher just this past week that the San Antonio Symphony is in serious trouble...again.
Brian Peterson
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Author: William
Date: 2002-08-31 16:03
I recently participated (as a guest, adult clarinetist) in a regional arts Musical Showcase 2002, sponsered by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and presented in the Mills Concert Hall of the Univeristy of Wisconsin in Madison. This festival of classical music included twenty finalists choosen by taped and live audition from a field of hundreds of high school age applicants from all over the mid-westtern US. And, I am very happy to report that--judging by the excellance of these young poeples performances--classical music is alive and well here in mid-America.
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Author: Brian Peterson
Date: 2002-08-31 16:47
William,
I'm glad to hear of the talented high shool aged musicians in the midwest, but my question is other than oddballs like me, who is going to be paying to hear this stuff in the coming decades? Beyond that those few people provide sufficient political clout in terms of numbers to see to it that school music programs don't fall the way of the budget axe?
Sorry, I guess I'm just feeling a bit pessimistic today.
BP
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Author: John
Date: 2002-09-03 06:48
My clarinet teacher is doing something about this...he's starting small but hoping to make it big. what he is planning on doing is getting some local businesses to fund a kind of "summer camp" thing at the high schools where people of any age and of any skill level can get free lessons and play in a group for free. even use the instruments for free...all in hope to get some students to start to love the same real music we have all come to love. i'm going to be one of the teachers for the clarinetists:). i'm really excited about it...i don't even care if i get paid for it, i just want others to love the clarinet as much as i do.
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