I studied piano performance in uni and I have stopped playing for a year or so, I felt like my music had hit a wall, my life had hit a wall so I took a backpack and I left home to another city. Now that I am much more calm at a new place I feel like we need a lot more audience among the younger generation. It is really sad that pop and spotify is totally taking over the classical music apart form ... Maybe we can brainstorm here how do we get more young people to attend classical concerts? My photographer friend had recommended me that sex sells ... But our professors are totally against that ... What should we do???
I was thinking of a real love story about two pianists fell in love but couldn't be together.
If you have ideas that you really believe in, you should go for it. You just need to find some connections and promote your ideas.
Isn't that the root cause of most of the troubles in the world throughout history?
Who wants a world without troubles? How boring is that?
I'm sure people will be gladdened that their deaths, torture and other sufferings are keeping you from the inconvenience of tedium.
Imagine...24 happy and joyous preludes by F.Chopin...
I wish. Chopin could only do melodramatically melancholic or three year old temper tantrum.Surprisingly few composers can convincingly do happy and joyous.
Exactly! Because that's unnatural;)
And may explain why people prefer pop.And.....I get Bonus points for bringing thread full circle to being on topic.
Why is it important to get more young people to attend classical concerts?I dont really care what other people listen to (as long as I dont have to listen to it)
Because not enough audience means no more concerts...and some people do like them. Besides we probably wouldn't have many world class pianists either if there were no performance opportunities.
-And by the way, whats wrong whith an older audience?
Internet and things like spotify are actually just as good in promoting classical music as any other. My classical music consumption has gone up to the roof after it became possible to instantly get to almost any recording I wanted to hear.Concerts on the other hand...I am not that young but I find the seriousness of them often just silly...And the way they are organized... I am supposed to sit still and be quiet and still I have to suffer all the coughs, noices and smells from other people
Only that they will be dead and no longer attending concerts sooner...
Well... yes but everyone will get older (almost everyone)
It is quite true that sex sells. So if your screen name is based on reality, maybe you can use that to your advantage. If your aim is to be a serious artists though, you might want to be more suddle and concentrate more on becoming better at what you do. But it never hurts to present an interesting personality and something original and new to the public.I doubt young people will get into classical music simply by seeing more bare skin. They have enough of that available with more popular forms. I think musical education and giving children opportunities to try playing intruments themselves still is the best way to keep classical music alive.Internet and things like spotify are actually just as good in promoting classical music as any other. My classical music consumption has gone up to the roof after it became possible to instantly get to almost any recording I wanted to hear.Concerts on the other hand...I am not that young but I find the seriousness of them often just silly...And the way they are organized... I am supposed to sit still and be quiet and still I have to suffer all the coughs, noices and smells from other people
We really do need this art form to spread good moral values.
You're right. Not all of them. Even though Liszt was such a womanizer, at the end of his life he became a religious man. That's where the bible verse come from. Wagner, as liszt's beloved son in law, promotes mostly drama, opera as a collective art form (not piano). He has a different aesthetic taste than the rest of the composers. Chopin doesn't like Liszt too much, thinks he's too flashy and refuses to attend his concerts, then he made a comment "simplicity is the key". There's always something good about each one of them. And I don't dare to comment on Beethoven because I don't understand his music too much yet...
If everyone can just be happy completely alone with an iPad, then human being will eventually become solitary animals instead of social animals.
No thanks. Morality and art is a not a good combination.
I quite like social(ist) realism.
But still if classical music is truly at an end, we could always let the young female pianists play naked.
Female only?
if we taught music as a core subject like maths from the very start of schooling
Well i myself wouldnt go to a concert with naked guys....
Start classical musical at the craddle and whip kids if they dont have their phones filled with it.Long live the classical days!But seriously, we dont have to 'make people listen classical music more'. People from the 70's and 80's are also still listening to classical music, and that wasnt exactly a classical era either. And blaming things like iTunes is a little silly, because it also makes classical music more accessable.But still if classical music is truly at an end, we could always let the young female pianists play naked.Gyzzz
"we could always let the young female pianists play naked"-These statements cold be one aspect why people avoid classical music.
Well, there has not been any naked young female pianist around that I know (and I would sure have known had there been any), and people have been avoiding classical music
Though a naked young female pianist playing a Scriabin Sonata still seems to be a better idea
I feel like a lot of University music students have alienated themselves from the rest of music, period. They become pretentious, claim that every other genre (even though Classical is an extremely loosely used term) is "Crap", and "No Merit". I don't think there's a point in trying to force people to listen to classical music; these people likely find something similar in the music they listen to that draws them back to it, that perhaps a classical musician won't find.What bugs me more, is that whenever I try to say something like "lighten up" or "each person can listen to what he or she pleases", someone will say "ya. They can listen to sh!t if they want to".It is the arrogance and self-entitlement that goes along with the University music student that ruins this scene. I finished my music degree in 2013, and although I learned an IMMENSE amount of valuable information, about technique, interpretation and context - the people in some of my classes made me want to bash my head against a brick wall.One kid said he doesn't listen to rap because he doesn't do drugs, and he doesn't think listening to drug music is a good way to live his life...?!?!? And the teacher didn't say anything. I don't have rap music on my iPod, but I'm just trying to get the point across that classical musicians can be just as ignorant as musicians of any other genre. The kid who said ALL rap is about drugs and what not, is just as stupid as someone who is saying that "all classical sounds the same and is boring". Neither wants to give the latter style the benefit of the doubt, and neither is "above" the other.
Topic: How do we get people to listen to classical music 