{"id":995,"date":"2007-01-12T08:43:21","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T16:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2007\/01\/the_prognosis_on_classical_mus\/"},"modified":"2007-01-12T08:43:21","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T16:43:21","slug":"the_prognosis_on_classical_mus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_prognosis_on_classical_mus.php","title":{"rendered":"The prognosis on classical music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow blogger Greg Sandow has emerged from his reading and research on classical music confident enough to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/sandow\/2007\/01\/where_we_stand_1.html\">make the following prediction<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n&#8230;the era of classical music is going to end. Not this year, not next year, maybe not in 10 years&#8230;. But sometime reasonably soon, the era of classical music will be over.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What does it mean to &#8221;be over&#8221;? Greg says this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nTo be as precise as I can, I might say that the apparatus of classical music, as we know it now, will very likely fade away. We won&#8217;t see many concerts (or at least not nearly as many as we see now) featuring only music from the past. We won&#8217;t explain classical music primarily in historical or structural terms. We won&#8217;t tell classical musicians that their main job is to serve the great composers. We might not ask our audience to sit in silence, clapping only when it&#8217;s told to.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And while it may seem a wrenching prediction, Sandow suggests that a new ecology might well emerge in its place that&#8217;s more personal, more connected, and more sustainable for the coming century. Loss is an essential part of renewal. And he suggests this particular art system is ripe for something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow blogger Greg Sandow has emerged from his reading and research on classical music confident enough to make the following prediction: &#8230;the era of classical music is going to end. Not this year, not next year, maybe not in 10 years&#8230;. But sometime reasonably soon, the era of classical music will be over. What does [&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-995","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\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}