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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

We live in an audio-visual environment

We live in an audio-visual environment. Everything has changed. In fact as humans we always were more visual than auditive - our visual processing system is more complex.

We also live in a much more interactive environment - computers quite rightly have replaced TVs to a large extent. Part of the change here is that far fewer hours are spent reading books - particularly among males.

The other big change is the degree of stimulation modern generations have in their lives (action movies, video games etc) and consequently crave.

Classical music - unless you play it yourself - has all the features that mark it for obsolescence.

- It's intellectual rather than stimulus rich - no beat to get the body moving
- Videos of classical concerts are so BORING you could fall asleep. Contrast that with pop videos

It's just not much of a "SHOW". And turning it into a show often cheapens it - the problem with crossover.

The demise of classical music goes hand in hand with the demise of another narrative form - narrative film that depends on character depth, psychology and carefully crafted dialogue. Take the films of Eric Rohmer - masterpieces that would never be made in Hollywood (or Bollywood...)

We're in the generation of Michael Gleik's "Faster - The Acceleration of Just About Everything".

People don't have the patience for anything longitudinal. Their brains are conditioned to switch to another "song" every 3.5 minutes.

It's a fundamental change in how we process information in so many ways. In our hyperlink world we look for information laterally, not longitudinally.

And that's bad for classical music.



Edits: 04/18/14

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