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Article: Classical music: Cremation or reincarnation?
- Article from:
- Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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The world we live in is struggling to preserve its beauty and artistic values. With the state of our culture on the rocks, classical music falls as one of its first victims. In Egypt, classical music has not only been considered historically and geographically distant, it also doesn't represent present Egyptians cultural interests.
Egypt isn't that different from the rest of the world. An impressive number of international researches, books and articles mourning classical music have been released over the past decade. A crisis this is indeed. Awareness of the problem is crucial, solutions and suggestions are imperative, but whining over the much talked about ...