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Sunday, September 5, 2010

Music in the Age of Soundbites


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http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2010/09/07/3003745.htm

Questions are regularly raised as to the relevance of classical music, or the classical arts in general, in an age where statements of policy, intention, emotion, commitment or criticism are reduced to a punchy line of no more than about a dozen words.

In a time where information is available to us at any hour of the day via 24 hour news channels, Twitter and Facebook, world-class conductor Simone Young asks what value is something which re

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