08-02-2021, 10:27 AM
(08-02-2021, 05:05 AM)David Horn Wrote:(08-02-2021, 04:13 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The demographics for classical music fans has always skewed old, highly-educated (one must be highly-educated to take a dare listening to something so generic in title as "String Quartet in E-Flat Major, K 428 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a work from the 1780's), and economically well-off (which usually goes with the education.
Maybe it is the pop stuff that people donate because it doesn't age well. Also, it may be the people who played music that I thought corny (and still do) that I miss. Nobody is perfect.
I grew up in a town full of immigtrants and their barely US-born offspring. Classical music was common in all age groupds except the youngest. Even there, the Italians still loved opera from the cradel on.
Yes -- opera is very much a part of the life of the Italian diaspora. As for German-Americans... it is largely country now.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.