In Reply to: The classical music continuing struggle and the 800-pound gorilla in the room: posted by tinear on April 17, 2014 at 07:22:54:
The root problem is in the network media..... We never had a problem with kids becoming familiar with classical music up to the mid 1960s..... Then for a reason, which only the network executives could rationalize, classical music was not only cut out from prime time television, suddenly and in totality, but willfully hidden from the masses ever since. To this very day.
A lot of young people today don't know who Beethoven is...... Not because they don't teach it in the schools, but because the network media has never aired his music..... These networks would rather feed the masses Justin Bieber, Eminem, and Lady Gaga. (And nobody of the younger generation doesn't know who those people are.)
Meanwhile, the networks in Japan, unlike those in the U.S., have never cut out classical music programming..... And the younger generation over there is just as interested in classical music as we old people are.
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Follow Ups
- The Root Problem Isn't In the Schools.......... [yt] - Todd Krieger 18:13:54 04/17/14 (16)
- RE: The Root Problem Isn't In the Schools.......... [yt] - Tom 12:28:49 04/18/14 (1)
- RE: The Root Problem Isn't In the Schools.......... [yt] - briggs 05:54:53 04/19/14 (0)
- Yup - Bob Neill 06:50:17 04/18/14 (0)
- You're looking at the problem, not the solution. - tinear 19:04:26 04/17/14 (12)
- Of Course It's the Problem......... - Todd Krieger 19:45:35 04/17/14 (11)
- RE: Of Course It's the Problem......... - Tony Lauck 19:43:17 04/20/14 (0)
- RE: Of Course It's the Problem......... - andy evans 00:57:13 04/18/14 (6)
- RE: Of Course It's the Problem......... - Todd Krieger 01:02:35 04/18/14 (5)
- The reason it airs in Japan - David Smith 03:32:43 04/18/14 (3)
- Even on PBS, I think it's declining, compared to how it used to be - Chris from Lafayette 00:01:52 04/19/14 (2)
- RE: Even on PBS, I think it's declining, compared to how it used to be - David Smith 06:08:22 04/19/14 (1)
- Yes - lack of education or even lack of basic exposure [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 09:41:03 04/19/14 (0)
- RE: Of Course It's the Problem......... - andy evans 01:48:47 04/18/14 (0)
- Arthur Fiedler - genungo 21:17:18 04/17/14 (2)
- RE: Arthur Fiedler - Todd Krieger 00:58:00 04/18/14 (1)
- RE: Arthur Fiedler - Bob Neill 07:14:08 04/18/14 (0)