It's interesting about classical music that the more you hear something, the more you get to know a piece, the better and better it gets, period, which is just an interesting thing on it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.
I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.
Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.
My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.
I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.
New music is absolutely integral to classical music.