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Originally posted by Nathanael
The other piece is that there has never been this much access to musical training the world. I'm in the NYC metro area, and you can't swing a Schoeps microphone on a cable without smacking dozens of folk with HEAVY training and skills (classical world here). Just about anyone with desire can get a background in theory, music performance, music production, etc that has NEVER been available in history.
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I disagree with this. In America, there was far more access to classical instructin in the past than there is now. At the beginning of the 20th Century, middle class children were expected to play an instrument - piano, violin, flute. a large percentage of kits were expected to have piano lessons. Even up to the post war years, competent instructors were available in every town. When I was in high school, in a small city in Texas, everty elementary school, every junior high school, and every high school had a band, an orchestra, and a choir. (Well, in elementary school, choir was part of every class). But even in my high school, more than 30% of the students took a music class. that's 500 students in a high school with 1500 students. This isno longer happening - at least, not in Nashville, where i live now. When educational budgets get tight, the music programs were the first to go.
An Arts Magnet school in a school system simply does not reach the same number of children that a system wide band/orchestra/choir program does. But that's really a subject for another thread.