Classical Music in a Changing Culture

In Classical Music in a Changing Culture Donald Vroon takes no prisoners in assessing the challenges and failures and possible successes that confront America’s future as a nation of music listeners. Vroon delves into a variety of topics: orchestra finances contemporary music classical music marketing attracting young crowds musical aesthetics the future of classical music the sale and distribution of music in the modern era; the decline of American culture and its causes; the role of misguided ideologies that affect American music from political correctness to multiculturalism to period performance practice and the true richness of our music and its subculture.<BR />