Has your brain been washed? Recently, one of those death-of-classical-music articles appeared on the Slate magazine website. Written by the New-York based writer Mark Vanhoenacker, it’s a fair to middling contribution to the genre – packed with bleak statistics and observations, with a tinge of personal optimism tacked on at the end. (See here.)
I’ve read plenty of this sort of stuff before (I’ve even written some of it myself), and didn’t find much that was new or different. So I turned to the comments that readers had written in response, hoping to find something more interesting.
I’ve read plenty of this sort of stuff before (I’ve even written some of it myself), and didn’t find much that was new or different. So I turned to the comments that readers had written in response, hoping to find something more interesting.
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