NY Times Sunday Dialogue on Saving Classical Music

[PaulSC]

Of those 20,000+ people one can safely bet that at most 500 (and I'm being very generous) ever heard his live concerts --- yet they flooded the streets the day of his burial. Not having heard a single iota of his music, what prompted them to do so nevertheless?

Facebook posts from his publicist?

[flyffdzd]

Seems to be.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Here are a couple of posts by a onetime rock music journalist, Greg Mitchell, discussing his sudden late-midlife obsession with Beethoven. I find them interesting because they touch on some of the themes of this thread:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/roll-over-chuck-berry-how_b_1273685.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/revolution-no-9-how-i-wen_b_1276508.html

[The new erato]

Thank you Velimir. This is really good stuff. Guess I was lucky growing bored with rock already at 23.