There's a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It's about making a strong visceral connection. That's something that I think great classical music can have, too.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Classical music can rock you!
Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.
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.
I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all kinds of music.
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.
I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.
To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.
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.
New music is absolutely integral to classical music.
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.