tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post5861944100763405518..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Classical music has a new audience but nobody noticedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-14912775091175473642016-02-12T13:08:48.228+00:002016-02-12T13:08:48.228+00:00"Anyone who thinks I am overstating the impac..."Anyone who thinks I am overstating the impact of these changes should use journalism as a case study" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35561145Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-33300181057556083412016-02-10T14:25:02.739+00:002016-02-10T14:25:02.739+00:00What a terrific post. I especially like your point...What a terrific post. I especially like your pointing out having audiences sitting mutely in the dark is not the way it's always been. When I tell friends and family who don't know much about classical music that Handel wrote the Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks to be played as background to social events, they're always surprised. And over the years, Greg Sandow has done posts with contemporary commentary on how opera performances were chaotic parties. And there's that letter Mozart wrote about writing some music meant to get the audience to applaud in the middle of a movement, and was delighted when they did so. Listening to live music can be a sacred transcendental experience - but in different places and times it can be a lot of other things as well.Lyle Sanford, RMThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com