Michael Rainwater's Classical Not Classical Blog
The symphony orchestra is one of humanity's greatest inventions. But somewhere along the way, it lost its connection to popular culture. Classical Not Classical is an attempt to restore that bond.
The most important orchestral music of the last fifty years wasn't written for the concert hall. It was written for the movies. And that should tell us something.
Pop and rock anthems weren't born in the orchestra pit — but they carry the same emotional DNA as the great symphonic works. Here's why bringing them into the concert hall isn't dumbing down classical music. It's completing it.
Every decade produces another wave of obituaries for the symphony orchestra. But the data tells a more complicated story — and the real crisis might not be what we think it is.