Sunday, December 26, 2004
The Year That Was Hardly Gets Started
"And the work took me away from the heart of the beat, in South Florida, to the heart of the matter, in New York.
"A National Arts Journalism Program institute on classical music took me to Columbia University. It was a heady, if exhausting, experience, which peaked, I think, at a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 8.
"Back in South Florida, I started asking myself questions not about the year that was passing but about the days ahead. The big one: Is the very notion of ''classical music'' obsolete? Or, as one critic has asked, if it's serious music, what is it serious about?"
¶ 12/26/2004 05:13:00 AM
"And the work took me away from the heart of the beat, in South Florida, to the heart of the matter, in New York.
"A National Arts Journalism Program institute on classical music took me to Columbia University. It was a heady, if exhausting, experience, which peaked, I think, at a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 8.
"Back in South Florida, I started asking myself questions not about the year that was passing but about the days ahead. The big one: Is the very notion of ''classical music'' obsolete? Or, as one critic has asked, if it's serious music, what is it serious about?"
¶ 12/26/2004 05:13:00 AM
