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Date: | Sun, 18 Apr 1999 21:49:29 -0500 |
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I think that many people my age (16+) could get into CM more if they knew
the live behind the music. In this day in age the family has greatly
deteriorated from what it used to be say 20 years ago, and many of my peers
are placed in situations and environments which are horrible. If they only
knew the torment faced by Beethoven, Mahler, or Tchaikovsky (to name a few)
and by listening to their music could hear the rage, anger, and torment of
these composers' lives, I think that more of my peers would be turned on to
classical music. And when it all boils down I think that its a lack of
exposure at this point. Many of todays popular bands, (i.e. Korn, Jewel,
Jay-Z, and many others) were all underground "nobodys" at sometime, and
somewhere somebody discovered this music and became impassioned in it
because it applied to their life. And I think that if we look at the lives
of many of the great composers, we find many situations that young people
today can identify themselves with, and I think that if a person who is
passionate and "real" about this music introduces this music to them, I
think that many will be attracted and see the whole realm of classical
music from a totally different perspective than they had before.
Jordan Schweigel [log in to unmask]
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