Book delay

The next episode of my

href="http://www.artsjournal.com/greg">online book on the future of

classical music –scheduled for Monday, October 9 — will appear on Wednesday

instead. This is due to scheduling and workload issues beyond my control. The new

episode continues with the historical background to the problems we have now. I’ve

been describing how three things helped establish the current isolation of

classical music from contemporary life: the rise of the very concept of classical

music (as something removed from everyday life), which dates from the early

19th century; the rise of modernism (which created an expectation that new

classical music would be far removed from everyday life); and the rise of

popular culture (which created artistic alternatives to classical music, and of

course to every other kind of high art).

The book episode after this one will also appear on a

Wednesday, instead of the usual Monday, in this case on October 25. I may want

to move all future episodes to Wednesdays, and if I decide to do that, I’ll

post a notice here in my blog. But — no matter which day I choose– episodes will

continue to appear ever two weeks. If you want to be notified by e-mail when

each new episode appears, please subscribe to the book! Various extra goodies (small

but tasty) come along with your subscription.

To subscribe, click

title="subcribe to my book">here to send me e-mail, and put “subscribe to

the book” in the subject line. I’d love it if you’d tell me a little about

yourself — the subscription list is very varied, and I’m eager to know who my

subscribers are. Many, of course, are from various corners of the classical music

business.

I apologize for the delay, but the Wednesday posting will

help me a lot, at least for the next two episodes.