Mark D Lew wrote:
On Oct 15, 2004, at 12:57 PM, Jane Frasier wrote:
I have been asked by some non-musician friends what the definition of classical music is. How is it different from non-classical music. I have not been able to come up with a very good answer.
If you expect to make money on it, it's pop; if you expect to lose money on it, it's classical.
mdl (paraphrasing Michael Tippett)
Possibly the only way to define classical music is to begin with a list of composers from which classical music has descended, naming sample composers along the way.
Or how about this:
Classical music is music you have to get dressed up all fancy to go sit in a concert hall for, where you don't applaud after the solos, don't applaud everytime the music stops, don't get up and dance, where they don't serve beer while it's being played, isn't usually performed in sports facilities, and if you don't follow the unwritten rules the blue-haired folks around you will glare at you as if you were an ugly insect.
Oh yes, and where you have to turn off your cell phones and pagers or the entire audience as well as the conductor and other performers will all glare at you if it rings.
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