On Jun 26, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Doyle Saylor wrote:
Classical musicians, in contrast, are by their very essence part of
a cosmopolitan, supportive, family; and from their earliest years
they know themselves to be part of a many-centuried tradition that
will sustain itself and grow as long as human beings remain
civilized.
[ds] Which flies in the face of declining classical music
audience. Classical music is dying.
Well, well, well. So someone is even more pessimistic about the
survival of civilization than I am!
[sm] It surely was some twisted perception of this that caused the
sick mind of Mao-Tse-Tung to unleash his pogrom against classical
music--something not even Stalin would have dared to imagine.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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