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Saint Paul Sunday host Bill McGlaughlin |
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But there is support in other places
for broadening classical music's definition. Saint Paul Sunday encourages a
broad concept of chamber music, and some of its guests such as the
Bolivian-based Rumillajta illustrate that commitment.
Saint Paul Sunday host and Kansas City Orchestra conductor Bill McGlaughlin: McGlaughlin: What I see - especially in a multi-cultural country that we are - we've ALL come from somewhere else; that the music gets better every time a new sort of national or ethnic music gets added to the mix. So you take a Russian Jew from New York, like Copland or Bernstein, or Gershwin, and you add in Caribbean/West African harmonic and rhythmic ideas. You add in maybe German polka, Scottish or Irish tunes, and pretty soon you have this American jazz floating around that has its roots in three continents, if not more, and it's a music for all of us.Is classical music at a crisis? From the Village Voice and the New York Times to audiophile and music industry magazines, writers have been warning of disappearing audiences, plummeting record sales, and substandard music education for years. But the alarm may be a bit premature. Two orchestras did file for bankruptcy this year, but six others did in the last decade, only to regroup within a few years. Classical CD sales are down, but so are sales of all kinds of music. But clearly, classical music is not without its problems. Finding consensus on what those problems are is another matter. Music organizations seem reluctant to admit even concern over any issue other than government funding.
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