Transcript: Classical Music at a Crossroads

NEAL CONAN
Talk of the Nation (NPR)
01-23-2007
Classical Music at a Crossroads

Host: NEAL CONAN
Time 15:00-16:00 PM


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NEAL CONAN, host:

This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan, in Washington.

The classical music press leans toward the apocalypse. The end is always right around the corner. And to be fair there are more than a few harbingers of doom: orchestras operating in the red and losing their recording contracts, Beethoven and Schoenberg fading from the airways, concert halls empty except for a few septuagenarians wielding hard candy. But rumors of the death of classical have always abounded, and there are signs that things may not be that dire. Here in the Washington, ...

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