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Feb 06 2010

The "Classical" music biz – Dead Again? I Think Not.

Posted by Paula in Tidbits

I’m going to bypass the two articles which prompted my headline and send you to a terrific blog, Proper Discord. If you want to read Anne Midgette’s
and Norman Lebrecht’s articles (if you haven’t already), there are links to them on the site. To be clear, I am not making any comment about either writer–I love Anne and read her blog and Washington Post articles regularly. I did not, however, agree with this particular post.

Here: In Defense of the Billboard Charts and Here: I Finally Flame Norman Lebrecht.

Frankly, I’m surprised we’re still talking about this.

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3 Responses to “The "Classical" music biz – Dead Again? I Think Not.”
  1. Sean Hickey says:
    February 6, 2010 at 5:02 am

    Yes, I’m surprised we’re still talking about this topic too. Thanks to Andy for taking it on. There’s still a lot of classical music fans that cling to the glory days. Well, if you’re a fan of music in all of its forms, especially new music of any kind, the glory days are now.

  2. Legless O'halloran says:
    February 10, 2010 at 8:38 pm

    If you start objecting to newspaper columns on the basis that they are:
    a. not new
    and
    b. not true
    then a lot of writers will soon be as hard up as a lot of musicians…

  3. Paula says:
    February 18, 2010 at 10:51 pm

    A lot of writers ARE as hard up as a lot of musicians.

    More to the point, however: it is a journalist’s job to report news and to be up-to-date on changes in the business they are writing about.

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