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    Classical Music Is Dying Positively

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    Classical music is dying because it is seen as boring and outdated by many modern audiences. Younger generations in particular are not interested in classical music because it is too formal and rigidly adheres to many historical rules. However, the article argues that classical music can be saved by embracing new compositions, breaking some traditional rules to make performances more interactive and entertaining, and regularly exposing audiences to contemporary classical works through recordings and radio broadcasts. This will help attract new listeners and prevent the genre from becoming obsolete as it currently focuses too much on the music of past centuries rather than the present.

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    Classical music is dying because it is seen as boring and outdated by many modern audiences. Younger generations in particular are not interested in classical music because it is too formal and rigidly adheres to many historical rules. However, the article argues that classical music can be saved by embracing new compositions, breaking some traditional rules to make performances more interactive and entertaining, and regularly exposing audiences to contemporary classical works through recordings and radio broadcasts. This will help attract new listeners and prevent the genre from becoming obsolete as it currently focuses too much on the music of past centuries rather than the present.

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    Classical music is dying because it is seen as boring and outdated by many modern audiences. Younger generations in particular are not interested in classical music because it is too formal and rigidly adheres to many historical rules. However, the article argues that classical music can be saved by embracing new compositions, breaking some traditional rules to make performances more interactive and entertaining, and regularly exposing audiences to contemporary classical works through recordings and radio broadcasts. This will help attract new listeners and prevent the genre from becoming obsolete as it currently focuses too much on the music of past centuries rather than the present.

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    Classical music is dying because it is seen as boring and outdated by many modern audiences. Younger generations in particular are not interested in classical music because it is too formal and rigidly adheres to many historical rules. However, the article argues that classical music can be saved by embracing new compositions, breaking some traditional rules to make performances more interactive and entertaining, and regularly exposing audiences to contemporary classical works through recordings and radio broadcasts. This will help attract new listeners and prevent the genre from becoming obsolete as it currently focuses too much on the music of past centuries rather than the present.

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    Classical music is dying positively

    By Edison Wan

    With the development of the society, every individual always lives a fast-
    paced life. Classical music is not the best entertainment for them, it
    wastes time and is boring. Teenagers do not get interested and no more
    passionate in the whole idea of it. Somehow, it has become
    unwelcoming. Because loads of ‘classical’ rules, classical music is too
    formal and stiff. In normal day, we are breaking the rules, so it is dying
    rapidly and thus save it.

    Classic music industry has stagnated. For John Adams


    American composer
    example, 70 years of indulging in historical and conductor of
    classical music and
    music but neglect the music of the present. opera. His famous
    People prefer Mozart and Beethoven to John work ‘Nixon in China’

    Adams, who is the most well-known living


    composer. I think it is a problem--people are
    skittish when it comes to anything new
    because they are never exposed to it. The
    unfamiliar is scary. It’s true that classical
    music just reacts to it. The music we
    champion is getting older and older.
    Ironically, we’re keeping the dead alive and we’re killing off the
    living. It is inevitable, so classical is dying faster and faster.

    Performances were a chance for artists and audiences to connect


    unattainable in other media, as a form of mutual communication.
    Applause between movements was allowed in the past; Improvisation
    were commonplace. Liszt, who is an exceptional composer and pianist,
    used his technical and his own charm to woo audiences. But all that
    changed in the 20th century
    because ‘rules’ appeared and
    began incorporating
    themselves into
    performances. Clapping and
    coughing in the middle of a
    piece? Forbidden.
    Performers speaking from the stage? Seldom. Improvisation in a
    concert? Almost never taught in the most prestigious classical music
    colleges or conservatories. That makes classical music become boring
    and it is not suitable for people.

    Luckily, we have more and more resources in the future. The internet is
    the 8th wonder of the world! To make sure ‘old’ classical music is not
    dying meaningless, we need to create contemporary music and make it
    become popular. I believe the only way to make people comfortable
    with the new music is to perform it regularly, record and play it on the
    radio. Just like we currently program classical music.

    Now when we break the ‘rules’, it will make the art-form more
    entertaining and intoxicating. Allowing us to share more emotion and
    passion through the music. Encouraging more young people to have fun
    with the performing arts instead of viewing them as a necessary work
    parents give and require a boring practice. We need to program
    improvisation into a part of concerts. It is full of interactive and becomes
    not dull anymore. It is bringing classical music more life than ever.

    I suppose we have to keep the new music appear continuously, and not
    live in an old century. No one will ever stop listening to Beethoven or
    Chopin. They’re still fantastic composers. We will just listen to them as
    well as John Williams and Arvo Part. If the variety of music is growing
    increasingly, the world will become more fantastic and interesting.

    Contemporary music’s score

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