How do we get people to listen to classical music

[theholygideons]

Wouldn't mind if we had some pretty naked booty girls playing Scriabin. Genius.

Yep, a sacrilegious orgy on top of the Himalayan mountains, featuring black booty and Scriabin at the piano.   

[Bob]

And colored lights that correspond to the music!  The way the composer originally intended it....


There better be something on the piano bench to cover it.

[xxhottie88xx]

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.

Bleh.  It's disappointing that more people aren't given the opportunity to understand classical music beyond "it's a really nice sounding piece", and can't open a score and really see it and take it in for what it is, and we have to take that into account.  My family doesn't have a music education, and I can't expect them to enjoy listening to the entire set of Etude Tableaux, when I can't sit and listen to two full albums by a band I don't care for as much.

Ego is every classical musician's best friend yet worst enemy. Only by comparison we know that one genre is better than the other. It's not a fight, it's a competition as two opponent adversaries, you have to accept the fact that classical music does elevate the spirit and reinforce social inhibition; rap truly doesn't elevate the spirit.

[mjames]

Yep, a sacrilegious orgy on top of the Himalayan mountains, featuring black booty and Scriabin at the piano.   

Glad to know we're on the same page.

[j_menz]

Glad to know we're on the same page.

One of the ones in the "sealed section", one presumes.