{"id":857,"date":"2006-03-01T00:45:03","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T08:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2006\/03\/sandow_on_classical_musicagain\/"},"modified":"2006-03-01T00:45:03","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T08:45:03","slug":"sandow_on_classical_musicagain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/sandow_on_classical_musicagain.php","title":{"rendered":"Sandow on classical music&#8230;again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My weblog neighbor, Greg Sandow, has been attempting a bold experiment in publishing &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/greg\/\">&#8221;performing&#8221; a book on-line<\/a>, posting chapters as he writes them for feedback from the world. When he&#8217;s done, he&#8217;ll publish it the old-fashioned way.<\/p>\n<p>After some months of wonderful prose and intriguing comments on the future of classical music, Greg has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/greg\/2006\/02\/post.html\">now begun again<\/a>, starting back at chapter one with a new focus and new approach. He&#8217;ll be diving into these tiny questions as his writing progresses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nIs the classical music audience getting older? Will it die off, and not be replaced? Can we find a younger audience? And why, exactly, should we be having a classical music crisis? Has our culture degenerated? Is it now too shallow &#8212; too noisy and dumb, too frenetic, too careless &#8212; to support cultivated musical art? Or has classical music just fallen behind the rest of the world, and gotten out of date?<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you missed the first go-around, here&#8217;s your second chance to witness and participate in a book under construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My weblog neighbor, Greg Sandow, has been attempting a bold experiment in publishing &#8212; &#8221;performing&#8221; a book on-line, posting chapters as he writes them for feedback from the world. When he&#8217;s done, he&#8217;ll publish it the old-fashioned way. After some months of wonderful prose and intriguing comments on the future of classical music, Greg has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}