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Of Course It's the Problem.........

The solution would be to once again air classical concerts on prime time TV..... Heck, Gustavo Dudamel would be the perfect man for attracting a new TV audience.

I think the networks transformed from reflecting popularity to defining it, sometime in the late 1960s...... I believe classical music lost popularity because the media stopped airing it, rather than the other way around.

I also believe this is why Leonard Bernstein was maybe the most famous American conductor, during the post-TV era. He was the music director of the New York Philharmonic when the networks shut it down. He was a household name up to that point.... If the networks shut down these concerts because of lack of popularity or viewership, Bernstein would have been obscure due to that. But he's not obscure. And even today, he still is the best known orchestral conductor to the American mainstream. (Only Herbert von Karajan comes close.)



Edits: 04/17/14

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