Juilliard Must Modernize, or It Will Disappear - Rolling Stone

Juilliard Must Modernize, or It Will Disappear - Rolling Stone

I heard Kiri Te Kanawa tell this same message to singers at Ravinia some several years ago.  

Classical continues to shrink.  Few young people listen.  In time, it will be like Chaucer's Olde English, the province of a tiny handful of learned enthusiasts.....

The dumbing down of human society proceeds apace.....good is called evil, evil good......