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It is not only about pandemic. The absolute majority of white people in concert halls are over 50. I haven’t been to Asia, but I see lots of young Asians in concert halls in the UK, also people look quite young in videos from Asia on YouTube.
The younger generation here is generally not educated in music at all, or educated poorly. I worked in IT companies with mostly young people and many of them despise classical music as elitist/capitalist/sexist/racist/etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if after 30 years, when most current concert goers dies (me included), playing Beethoven in the UK will be considered as racist as performing blackface.
By norman lebrecht
He was one of the last soloists to be known to everyone by his first name, and he was everybody’s friend. A sense of bereavement stretches across the world of music – and this for a man of 98 who had not been seen outdoors all year.
He had a visit on December 5th from Martha Argerich and received many calls through the month from old friends. He asked the nurse this morning for a glass of water and was gone as it arrived.
So very, very sad to have to accept the passing of the great, the unique, the so deeply loveable, glorious, the irreplaceable (and frequently impossible!) Ivry Gitlis. There’ll never be another like him… pic.twitter.com/nj5TEk3p8J