Alex Ross's Loss Of Interest In Classical Music

world needed a change in classical music and it’s frustrating since classical music is assumed to be the “audience is a moribund crowd of the old, the white, the rich, and the bored”. He also expresses his frustration with people who idealize classical music to be of a high class art whereas other music such as pop or any other is considered to be trashy. He states that music shouldn’t be categorized into classical or pop or jazz or rock, music is music and composers have the right to express their inner state, their emotions in any possible way. There shouldn’t be a line what is considered to be an elite music, music of higher class. “Composers are artists , not etiquette columnists; they have been betrayed by well-meaning acolytes who believe

The society is so “brainwashed” by the idea that no one can create a better classical music than the great composers of the long time centuries that composers of nowadays lose their interest in classical music, they “started to doubt their ability to please the implacable audience, which seemed prepared to reject their wares no matter what style they wrote in.” It’s very important to encourage the composers young and experienced to create what they love and us audience to accept it as a continuing art of classical music. Due to that fact and rules of etiquette in the philharmonics, the percentage of concert goers decreased. Daniel Gregory Mason, Columbia professor stated, “he found more excitement ta open-air concerts at Levisohn stadium, in Harlem, where the audience expressed itself freely.” Alex Ross writes, “All music becomes classical music in the end.” Rock and roll, jazz all these kinds of music have a sense of longevity and history, which is indefinitely stays with the audience