Thanks to the urging of my daughters, I went to see Modest Mouse in Anaheim on Saturday. They were very good, and I had a lot of fun.
Two things I care about are demographics and music. The only genre music I don’t like is country-western (although I like Willie Nelson). At Modest Mouse’s show at the Grove of Anaheim, I was (I would guess) in the top decile of the age distribution. When I saw Jethro Tull at the Greek last year, I was about median. When I see the LA Phil (or any other symphony orchestra), I am in the bottom decile (or at least quintile). I worry about its audience dieing.
I am convinced that part of the problem is that when one goes to hear classical music, he is expected to keep a stick up his butt. Yet classical music is full of dances. Bach wrote loads of Gigues, Sarabandes and Courantes; Wagner called Beethoven’s 7th “the apotheosis of the dance;” Stravinsky’s music was commissioned by Diagolev.
So maybe classical music concerts need to change so that people can move while listening. But as Jan Swafford notes, part of what makes classical music great is silence. I don’t know the answer.
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