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So I decided to take advantage..
.. Of other people answers, and why not. That’s what the websites there for? And plus I thought it would give me some inspiration! http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnyBe_y9lbwurYfqLJMFDU0gBgx.;_ylv=3?qid=20090224030641AAP2lhf My question simply was: How can we get the younger generation to like Classical Music? So far, I have had 6 or 7 answers – some are quite good, others [...]
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Classic FM
The first thing I think of is boring! The website is so plain and samey – I don’t like it, it doesnt invite me to look at it. http://www.classicfm.co.uk/
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The Philamonic Orchestra
“The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the oldest concert-giving organisations in the world, and the second oldest in Britain. The origins of its concert series date back to the formation of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society, which administers it, in 1840. The Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, as it was called then, acquired the title [...]
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Charlotte Church – Odd one out?
I just thought you ought to watch this. She must be our age or younger. People love her, but do they love her music? Personally, I prefer her newer stuff! But, I decided to add it because I feel like shes the anomoly! So thats what she started out as.. This is what she ended [...]
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Yahoo – Questions and Answers
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080509031102AA8lRop I thought this was quite interesting. Older people are really bitter…
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Nyman’s and Williams’ Music
Okay, so what do I think of their music? I don’t like it. But, do i not like it because is a physiological thing or because I really don’t like it? I will try to explain, do I not enjoy it because it has always been seen as ‘uncool’ to listen to it, even since [...]
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Michael Nyman
“As one of Britain’s most innovative and acclaimed composers, Michael Nyman’s work encompasses operas and string quartets, film soundtracks and concertos. Far more than merely a composer, he’s also a performer, band leader, author, musicologist and now a photographer and film maker. Although he’s far too modest to accept the description ‘Renaissance Man’, his restless [...]
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Vaughan Williams
“Ralph Vaughan Williams OM (12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song; this also influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, which began in 1904, many folk song arrangements being [...]
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Sound and Image
For this brief I am required to help the Philamonic Orchestra in Liverpool reach out to a different audience of the younger generation. This is such a hard one! It’s nearly as hard as my mums job, trying to get young people into librarys and encourage them to read. I think this is on par [...]
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