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Is classical music dead?

Results so far:

No
93% 203 votes Total: 218 votes
Yes
7% 15 votes
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    by Ted Onulak

    Pondering this topic, suddenly brought to mind the funny little scene in "The Seven-Year itch", when the Tom Ewell character, in his efforts to seduce the ditsy Marilyn Monroe, ...read more

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    by Joseph Malek

    As long as there are people who want to hear the most emotional and beautiful music that was ever created from years past, classical music will never die. Yes, there are many ki...read more

  • 3 of 23

    by Kelly Monteith

    The only way of relieving the everyday stress is to turn on your favorite classical music station and let the music take you to places you could only dream of.As a subscriber to...read more

  • 4 of 23

    by Joseph Whalen

    Classical music today is what it has been over the years, an indulgence of the finer things about music. It is a style of music that embodies the grace and elegance that is non-...read more

  • 5 of 23

    by Beverly Hicks Burch

    Everyone has their favorite genre of music. Nowadays you would be inclined to think if you approached the average citizen on any street and asked them, "What's you favorite type...read more

  • 6 of 23

    by Joan Inong

    Classical music is definitely not dead. Contrary to popular belief, it still has a thriving role in even today's contemporary sounds. We say that classical music is dead but...read more

  • 7 of 23

    by M. Joseph

    Classical music thrives I am an 18 year old, college bound, socially active guy who is huge into the indie/alt. rock scene. My other choices of music run the gambit from Pop ...read more

  • 8 of 23

    by Kenneth Myers

    Classical music shall never die, no matter what people say. With so much going on in the area of 'four-chord' guitar playing rock bands and percussion-based rap 'music', there i...read more

  • 9 of 23

    by Roger Grant

    As long as there's a heaven there'll be angels and as long as there's Hollywood there will be classical music. The popular definition of classical as it relates to music is :e...read more

  • 10 of 23

    by Eric Bodreau

    I do not think classical music in general is dead. As far as new classical composition goes, it is relatively rare to find a catchy original piece that a modern composer brings ...read more

  • by Joshua Murphy

    I would say no because we all hear classical music in the movies we watch. To every movie we watch, there's a little special known person who does one thing to give the movie i...read more

  • 12 of 23

    by Leigh Goessl

    Classical music has survived centuries and its longevity has proven this genre is not dead by a long shot. Over centuries these timeless pieces continue to be passed down from g...read more

  • 13 of 23

    by Les Zsoldos

    Classical music is definitely not dead. While it may have little or no appeal to some people, the fact is that classical music is all around us. Unfortunately, though, many do...read more

  • 14 of 23

    by Sherrill Fulghum

    While the composers that comprise what we know today as classical music are long gone; the music that they left behind is not - far from it. The recent release of albums like "...read more

  • 15 of 23

    by Michael Greaney

    Classical music is alive and living in the world of the arts and among the public. The problem is that traditional models of musical organization are dying on the vine. As art...read more

  • 16 of 23

    by Lesley Aeschliman

    No, I don't think classical music is dead. In fact, I don't think it's a music genre that will ever truly become "dead." The fact of the matter is, depending on who you ask, t...read more

  • 17 of 23

    by Andrea Paulsen

    Is classical music a dead genre? I suppose a clever answer would be "no, but its composers are dead". Except, they're not. Ask someone to name as many classical music compo...read more

  • 18 of 23

    by Bohdan Rewko (Bo of T.O.)

    Every now and again I hear somebody say that classical music is dead. But is it really? As a young teen I grew up hearing the Beatles' song "Roll Over Beethoven". The implica...read more

  • 19 of 23

    by Christopher Hansen

    No way is classical music dead! It lives some where in the very structure of our universe, like the "force" it surrounds and flows through everything that is was and ever wil...read more

  • by Genie Bienicewicz

    I think that classical music is still alive. I don`t think in the later generations that it has ever been the most popular choice of music but it not dead. I personally grew w...read more

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    by Raven Lebeau

    There are those who claim to like classical music. There are also those who claim to like salad, exercise, and preparing their own taxes. In fact, such people are fairly commo...read more

  • 2 of 2

    by Amber Jansky

    I work in a retail establishment that offers a fairly large variety of classical music artists. While I was covering back in our music department recently, I had a customer ment...read more

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