DOING WHAT COMES NATURALLY

posted by James Reel

    In all the blogging about how to save classical music from extinction, this is the most sensible comment I’ve seen so far:

I think we are what we are. I think it's a good idea to try new things, but it's a bad idea to try new things that are silly, cheap, or make us the laughing stock of the younger generation because we are trying so hard to be hip with a non-hip product. There's a reason popular music is called popular. We aren't pop music. There's pop fiction. There's pop culture. Fine. Let them be. They are popular now. They will not be popular later. Eventually they'll either be gone all together, or move into the "classic" realm.