Laws of nature
Darwinian theory states that you must adapt to current needs. This is true of everything. If classical music does not look to the future and adapt accordingly,it can not survive. It will die a long and painful death. At the moment it is not even sickly! Even though it is being dwarfed by it's neighbour pop,rock... music. All around the world there are thousands of 'voluntary' performers in thousands of amateur music groups and their enthusiasm is not waning. There are hundreds of professional orchestras around the world even though budgets are tight. It is a tough old world out there but there is no real evidence that classical music has become irrelevant. But will in the future have to become more adaptive.
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