Posted by Chuck(G) on July 06, 2003 at 15:46:07:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: State of Classical Music? posted by Mark Wiseman on July 06, 2003 at 15:03:17:
Actually, the guy who's doing the piano demolition gigs may have a good point.
Try doing a "Street Smarts" or "Jay Walk" type of interview of a hundred people, say, at the Mall of America. "Who is Percy Grainger?". Think you'd get more than one or two out of a hundred to answer correctly? Might it be that classical music is slowly becoming the property of the elite (and those not-so-elite souls who play it for them)?
I'm not venturing guesses, but maybe this guy's claim has some validity.
And by "Francophones" do you mean the citizens of Senegal, Tahiti, Burkina Faso, Vanuatu, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Morroco, Niger, Seychelles, Togo, Zaire and, French Guiana, Quebec and Lousiana? That's a lot of people to paint with the same brush, don't you think?