Re: The Death of Classical Music (da capo, con brio)
On Apr 4, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
As far as music (if not sex) is concerned, the doing part has been increasingly outsourced. A new international division of labor in classical music may be that China plays and the West listens.
As the article points out, the Chinese are now moving in where
Japanese and Koreans have long been present. It’s pretty interesting
that these rising Asian powers want to master the Western musical
tradition. What would all the “Westering” poets of the late 18th
century done with this?
Doug