Laurent Bayle’s DEMOS and the quest to ‘modernize’ classical music
By Stephen Atkinson | March 8, 2020Classical music has a problem. Its audience is mostly white, educated, wealthy, and old
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Classical music has a problem. Its audience is mostly white, educated, wealthy, and old
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