03-06-2004, 04:06 AM
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| Or this one: Nasville City Paper People who love classical music are a gloomy bunch. It might be high ticket prices we're forced to pay for recitals and concerts. Perhaps it's the sense of alienation we feel not knowing - or caring - who Kid Rock is....
"Classical music is alive," says Heymann. "It's classical music organizations that are ailing." And their demise is the result of their almost willful refusal to cultivate new audiences.
"Millions of children are taking piano or other music lessons," he says. "But this and other audiences have been ignored."
He notes that orchestra concerts held in municipal parks routinely draw tens of thousands of listeners, while the same orchestra might have trouble filling a medium-sized concert hall.
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