Classical music has many issues right now as does every music genre, but classical musics is causing its death in some ways.
Some ways to fix it are:
1) Include improvisation again, music starts with improvisation not theory that comes afterwards. Its so inspiring to see someone play music with an added aspect of improvisation because you see the composing live.
2) Give more chamber concerts. Every one has either heard all the "popular" symphonies or knows nothing about them and is overwhelmed by the vast quantity of it. Chamber music is still an area in classical music that has a huge repertoire and in many cases it is "more exciting" repertoire. It also is a more intimate concert with less musicians.
3) We also need to fix the way music is taught. Its taught that this is the only way to learn music but we are only learning music from a Western-European mindset which is a very smart mindset with many complex ideas but it is also limited to vertical variation as in harmonic progressions. If we learned about modality which is the main system that drives every music culture you can learn so much more. Tonality is a derivative of modality.
Those are some of my suggestions.
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