Contemporary Classical Music: Crisis, What Crisis? Tim Benjamin ...
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Sort Desciption: Contemporary Classical Music: Crisis, What Crisis? Tim Benjamin September 2007 It is the oft-stated fear of many music critics, and more than a few practicising musicians, that ...
Content Inside: Contemporary Classical Music: Crisis, What Crisis? Tim Benjamin September 2007 It is the oft-stated fear of many music critics, and more than a few practicising musicians, that there is some kind of crisis in classical music. Whether the fear is expressed as recently, in Maestros, Masterpieces, and Madness by Norman Lebrecht, that an art form (recorded classical music) has essentially come to an end, or by Adorno, in the 1930s, that the practice of hearing itself has regressed, it seems that the sense of a crisis is perpetual. Books with doom-laden titles such as What Good Are The Arts? (Carey) and Who Needs Classical Music? (Johnson) proliferate, and while these authors have all attempted to offer some hopeful ...
