Classical music is booming, contrary to the pessimism of most in the business

["the.kurtz.quartet" <kurtz@xxxxx>]

http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3D1815152

What would really change things would be more listenable modern music. That
may be happening, thanks to composers like John Taverner or Thomas Ad=E8s.
Jeremy Summerly, a musicologist, says that the =B3new complexity=B2 of the 1960=
s
has given way to =B3new simplicity=B2. Few went to premi=E8res when he was a
student, he notes. Now, by contrast, =B3even normal people go=B2.=20

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