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| | Resuscitating Art Music |
 | | Those of us who have been moved, nourished, and inspired by art music find it hard to believe what's happening: symphony orchestras are collapsing, artist managers are going out of business, presenters are reducing their chamber music offerings, newspapers are cutting back on coverage, audiences are graying, and funds are drying up. |
 | | European art music, for instance, was developed for an audience who played instruments, who bought new music and learned how to play it, who sang in choirs, who took composition lessons. |
 | | We now have so many kinds of art music available to us, from so many cultures of the present and past, and there are so many different kinds of listeners with different levels of experience, that there can be no single solution to the question of how to present live music. |
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