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6 Nov 2019 Conversations with Tyler Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage
“There’s all sorts of interesting things happening. But the problem is, they created a public image over the course of 50 years that classical music was just noise and difficult to listen to.”
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- Ted Gioia
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- 6 Nov 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…What’s the solution to contemporary classical music being too academic? Or would you not accept that premise? Contemporary classical music now is great. There’s a lot of exciting things happening, and classical composers are mixing up classical music with rock and jazz and folk styles. There’s all sorts of interesting things happening. But the problem is, they created a public image over the course of 50 years that classical music was just noise and difficult to listen to. So they’ve got to overcome their own reputation. But if you sit down and listen to contemporary classical music seriously over the course of several months, people would be amazed at how much they enjoy it. After Philip Glass, what is it from contemporary classical music that will last?…
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