{"id":986,"date":"2013-06-10T00:06:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T04:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/?p=986"},"modified":"2013-06-10T00:08:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T04:08:05","slug":"in-which-classical-music-dies-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2013\/06\/in-which-classical-music-dies-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"In which classical music dies yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pianist Krystian Zimerman reportedly<\/a>\u00a0left a performance last week because someone was filming him on their smartphone. Long-time\u00a0Life’s a Pitch\u00a0<\/em>readers (hi Mom) may remember that I was there<\/a>\u00a0the day Patti LuPone stopped a performance of\u00a0Gypsy\u00a0<\/em>just after she began “Rose’s Turn” because someone was taking pictures. The audience applauded; I was appalled.<\/p>\n

Zimerman had every right to stop a solo recital. I would argue that LuPone did not have the right to stop a musical, because she was playing a character and had several off-stage opportunities to ask someone to have the photographer removed from the theater.<\/p>\n

Zimerman\u00a0may, however, have overstated the point here:<\/p>\n

On returning, he told the audience that he had lost many recording projects and contracts because music managers had told him: “We’re sorry, that has already been on YouTube.” “The destruction of music because of YouTube is enormous,” he added<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are a lot of pianists on YouTube, it’s true: playing a diverse repertoire, often filmed without their permission:<\/p>\n

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