the paper solution

To return to a question previously posed in my blog (see here), is classical music dying?

Classical music performers, experts and fans tackle this doozy of a question on a daily basis. They wonder how many people will show for the next Long Beach Symphony concert, or if classical music will ever again equate to the fame of Michael Jackson.

After they wonder, they speculate.

"No... classical music is definitely NOT dying. First of all, its an inanimate object. Second of all, its just too imperative an art form for our society to forget." Or, "I'm sorry, honey, but I have some bad news. Our favorite genre of music is dead, extinct, run over by the Jonas Brother's limo."

After they speculate, they usually call it a night.

(Zzz...)

Except for me. Rather than pouring a late night cocktail and toasting to "better times," when I deduced classical music was lagging behind in the polls I sat down at my laptop and wrote a paper about it! I could not sleep knowing that classical music may or may not die off. The genre is too important to music history and too important to me. So I came up with a solution.

Be on the lookout for a link to my research paper, "Modest Mouse Meets Modest Mussorgsky." Don't worry, it's quite lengthy. You won't miss it.