Publication: NARAS Journal
Publication Date: Summer 1993 (Volume 4 No. 1)
 

In America today, art music
-- whether by Bach or Coltrane or Shankar or Zwilich --
sometimes seems like a species on the verge of extinction.

 

One summer I taught music at a computer camp. After years of experience as music camps, it was a shock to be teaching kids who weren't already involved in music. I didn't know how to connect with them. My class of high school students had no music training and no detectable interest in art music. They weren't interested in new experiences. They were frighteningly incurious. For them, "I hate that" meant the same thing as "That's unfamiliar to me."