A US audience full of late twenty-somethings gasped, laughed, cheered, ooh’d and ahh’d through a classical music performance – of video game music. Might this ambience revive audiences for classical music? suggests Jeffrey Tucker.
I was recently in an ornate orchestral hall built in the late Gilded Age, a setting designed to present an opera or symphonic music to a generation before World War I that craved such performance art. The concert I attended was sold out, with tickets running between $40 and $75.
The place was vibrating... Keep reading on Liberty.me
I was recently in an ornate orchestral hall built in the late Gilded Age, a setting designed to present an opera or symphonic music to a generation before World War I that craved such performance art. The concert I attended was sold out, with tickets running between $40 and $75.
The place was vibrating... Keep reading on Liberty.me