{"id":433,"date":"2010-03-09T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T08:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=433"},"modified":"2010-03-09T08:54:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T08:54:41","slug":"se-ex_get_yer_red_hot_sex_here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/03\/se-ex_get_yer_red_hot_sex_here\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Se-ex. Get yer red hot sex here&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/properdiscord.com\/2010\/03\/08\/30-things-that-wont-save-classical-music\/\">list<\/a> of the top 30 things that Won&#8217;t Save Classical Music over on the blog <i>Proper Discord<\/i>. While the idea of &#8220;saving&#8221; anything (from itself, basically) is of course ridiculous (hence the list), I have to disagree with the naming of specific writers and artists. That said, composer Lowell Liebermann, whose music I don&#8217;t know, is at the top of the list, and I&#8217;m glad for this since I&#8217;m now totally obsessed with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowellliebermann.com\/\">homepage<\/a>. The rest of the site is pretty basic, but I love that nice lemon background and cut-out photo (with shadows) right at the start. Not my point, here, though. My point is that <i>Proper Discord <\/i>posted its list one day too soon, because today we learned that the one thing that Will Save Classical Music is Readily Available:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"articleText\"><span class=\"focusParagraph\">Sex.com, often touted as one of the most valuable Internet domain names, is due to head to the auction block next week. (via <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE62804S20100309\">Reuters<\/a>)<\/i><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah! This is The Way! If only the thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of people who type in &#8220;s-e-x-dot-c-o-m&#8221; every day were sent to the <a href=\"http:\/\/nyphil.org\/\">New York Philharmonic&#8217;s website<\/a>. &#8220;Muti, Schiff and Brahms&#8221;? MmmHm. Oh-yeah. They&#8217;d spend hours trying to figure out how that was dirty. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NYPhilMuti.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/NYPhilMuti.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"277\" width=\"450\" \/>&#8220;Final Performance Tonight at 7:30&#8221;? Giggity giggity. (Unrelated: Why doesn&#8217;t the NY Phil own <a href=\"http:\/\/nyphil.com\/\">nyphil.com<\/a>? The LA Phil owns both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laphil.com\/\">laphil.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laphil.com\/\">laphil.org<\/a>, which is as it should be.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NYPhilDotCom1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/NYPhilDotCom1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"281\" width=\"450\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NYPhilDotCom2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/NYPhilDotCom2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"208\" width=\"450\" \/>PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA! Amazing. <\/p>\n<p>Right, so buy NYPhil.com, and then buy Sex.com and just be done with it. $15,000 in ad revenue a day plus the Google-ability? Consider classical music officially saved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a list of the top 30 things that Won&#8217;t Save Classical Music over on the blog Proper Discord. While the idea of &#8220;saving&#8221; anything (from itself, basically) is of course ridiculous (hence the list), I have to disagree with the naming of specific writers and artists. 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