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Well, I think you are both right

Not about the conspiracy aspect so much, but about the role media play in shaping audience receptiveness and expectations.

In Europe and Asia, classical music is widely available on radio, television and public performances -- all because the state government supports and funds it. It is considered (along with other arts) a cultural investment. And people go/watch/listen because they grew up in a society that values and funds its cultural heritage of music and the arts.

Every person I have ever met from Germany is very familiar with their classical music heritage. In the U.S., you are lucky to find anyone who can even name an American composer. Maybe, if you prompt them, they'll say "Gershwin? Oh, I heard of him," because they saw the American In Paris movie or something. Is it a media conspiracy? No, it's a product of the societal decision as to the arts.

Part of the larger problem is that we never really had a strong *American* music culture with lots of *American* classical composers that everyone grows up listening to. And the government has never invested in supporting the arts (with the exception of a few museums and a few assorted grants). That would be "socialism."

So, it does not surprise me that classical music reviewing and criticism has declined to the point of puff pieces about Lang Lang and Yuja Wang. Previous decade it was Bell and Hahn who got the press.


"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)

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