Choral music and Radio 3's priorities

[DracoM]

And THAT is where I see the greatest danger of all. You don't educate a generation in music, you eventually leave that generation to slosh about perpetually in the clutches of the pop biz.

[Gabriel Jackson]

What has changed is that there's much more pandering to old people's idea of what young people find attractive, which is an undignified and counterproductive business IMO.

Agreed. If you don't patronise young people, and present the right repertoire in the right environment, they will come in huge numbers. Before the establishment started showing up in order to tell themselves how hip they are, the performances in Peckham Car Park of big pieces by Stravinsky, Louis Andriessen etc. attracted well over a thousand young people who probably never go to 'classical' concerts.