This week I have found two blogs that both seriously discuss a issue between young people and classical music. One of those was entitled “Why don't young people listen to classical music?” by Sankeri. The other was entitled “Children and classical music” by Jonathan. After reading through these two blogs, I deeply feel that to popularize classical music by only relying on our classical musicians is absolutely not enough, because no matter how big contribution the classical musician had dedicated to the development of classical music, if a government of a country have not really realized an importance of supporting classical music education for its whole nation, it will be very difficult for classical musicians to promote classical music move further. These two blogs actually remind me a lot of similar examples which I have study from history class. To those people, who have studied Chinese ancient civilization, may be still remember that how Ying Zheng, the first emperor of China, unified his Qin Dynasty. He unified many things by promoting his law, such as tax system, coinage, metrology and Chinese characters in writing, but he also stopped many cultures’ development that originate from other foreign states in the ancient China, such as he "suppressed scholars who were not to his liking", and killed them. Perhaps this example sounds too serious, but it is not an exaggerate example, which comparing the issue of supporting classical music by government, because today’s world of classical music have already had many tragic evidences, such as some recording companies are folding, some orchestras are closing or many musicians start to seek for non-music job, etc. Obviously, government’s support to classical music may directly affect the future of the classical music. My response for both posts can be found below and at the respective sites.
Why don't young people listen to classical music?
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Thank you for the post. After reading this, I feel the classical music will move forward. The reason I am saying this is not because I am a classical musician, but is a sense which many people start to feel that classical music should move forward and should develop to another new level. To tell the truth, my classical music study was decided by myself. There was no pushing from my parents and there was not any mandatory requirement from my school that classical music was a class which I had to take. I remembered that I just love the way of the music producing when I first time listened to it, even I did not know that this particular type of music was classical music. So an idea I would like to share is that classical music education does not mean that everybody have to learn a instrument or have to learn certain amount of songs, even I would not suggest our professional musician training have to be in this way. In my opinion, the real professional musician should train as a writer or a painter, have an ability to describe something from our life by using music, which can lead people to a moment that they can imagine it and appreciate it by listening to.
And the real classical music education should lead young people to know how to appreciate a classical music pieces. It is same as an example that many young people know the Titanic song because of the movie. If without watching that movie, it is hard to imagine that this song can be incredible popular to young people. Lastly, I agree that government should seriously support classical music education. Without government support, first of all, musicians will lose their job. Secondly, classical music will be abandoned forever.
Children and classical music
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Thank you for the post. After reading this, I feel that classical music education should be set as one of the important education at schools. The first reason is that if more and more young people start to know classical music, our group of classical musicians will become stronger, and there must be some chances to have more high level musicians in the future to help us to establish a better classical music education program at school, and those new trained high level musicians also will effectively help the classical music to move to a new level. The second reason is that if more and more young people get to know classical music, the value of the music can be sensible. It is same as example that if everybody thinks gold is not valuable metal, of course the gold will lose its importance to us. In order to reach this goal, government’s support is very important, because it means that whether classical music education can be supported by strong finical foundation, or not. If not, It is easy to imagine that many classical musicians, teachers and those whose work are related to classical music will lose their job, and classical music will be gradually sink into the underground of the our society.
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