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It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical literary masterpieces of the past, and there is no shortage of people who believe that what little they're required to learn in school is still too much.

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I feel quite confident that audiences on both sides of the Atlantic are growing 'dumber,' if what you really mean to say is 'less culturally literate.'

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I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock.

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One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.

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At its best, no art form is more thrilling than grand opera, yet none is at greater risk of following the dinosaurs down the cold road to extinction.

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In the early days of jazz, it was ensemble music: everybody playing all together. Nobody really stood out.

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Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz.

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Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood.

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Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.

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No cowboy songs, no hoedowns. It's a more serious piece. Yet every bar of 'Appalachian Spring' is clear, clean, tonal, intelligible - great music that anyone can grasp at first hearing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: February 6th, 1956

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