Greg Sandow has a list of fifteen troubling signs for classical music, and it's a fairly troubling list, indeed. But even more troubling is the sixteenth reason offered by Lisa Hirsch. We've basically decided in this country that music just isn't something that we need to be teaching our children about. And I don't think that this is just going to be a problem for classical music; I can't see how all forms of music won't suffer for the increasing lack of interest in teaching the rudiments of music in the schools. This can't be good for jazz, and I don't think it can be good for rock, either. (Serious rock, that is. Pop-stuff like Hillary Duff will keep going in its own navel-gazing fashion.)
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