June 18, 1999

Bowing to the Inevitable: It's Time for String Players to Improvise a New Canon

By MATHIAS WEXLER

Musicians and musicologists are questioning the basic cultural assumptions that for generations have undergirded the world of classical music. The distinctions between classical and other types of music have become blurry. Even among classical music's most ardent admirers, the contention that it is aesthetically superior to other genres has become an outdated and elitist conceit.

Those issues aren't abstract

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