A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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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.
When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.
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.
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
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 had had a classical education prior to that.
Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.
Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.
I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.
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