In Reply to: You're looking at the problem, not the solution. posted by tinear on April 17, 2014 at 19:04:26:
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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- 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)
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