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Article: CLASSICAL MUSIC'S NEW GENERATION.(LIVING)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- February 8, 2000
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For years people who love classical music have feared for its survival. They have worried at the advancing age of those who attend concerts, at the decline of opportunities for music study in the public schools, at the drop in piano sales, at the pervasiveness and tyranny of popular culture.
Would classical music survive the Woodstock generation? Would young people want to play Mozart and Mahler? Would orchestras have patrons eager to embrace their art?
Apparently, yes, yes and yes. Classical music is surviving, even thriving, with the help of a new generation of musicians. The Generation X-ers - those aged 18 to 34 - have embraced classical music much ...