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The Death/Life of Classical Music

Posted at 4:24 PM on May 24, 2007 by John Birge

Recommended reading from Alex Ross (and good conversation ammo against the doomsayers).

Reminds me of that remark (by Charles Rosen?), something to the effect of "The only tradition as old as classical music is the tradition of predicting the death of classical music..."