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#CHOPIN MUSIC MAKING PEOPLE VIOLET SERIES#

ThatвЂ™s compounded by the fact that few people under thirty (who am I kidding? more like fifty) listen to classical music, and when the local orchestra puts on some sort of concert series to revitalize interest - usually named вЂњBringing the Classics Back to the YouthвЂќ or something equally cheesy - it invariably comes off as pathetic and out of touch.ДЄnd yet, there is still so much that can be taken from classical music. Namely, it can be stuffy, pretentious, unnecessarily formal, and the act of actually going to a concert is both expensive and a dress-up extravaganza that leaves little room for, well, enjoyment. No doubt thereвЂ™s much wrong with classical music. I didnвЂ™t say anything, contented to finish up a bit of last minute homework rather than interject in a conversation I wasnвЂ™t a part of, but a portion of me was saddened by the fate classical music faces now that even the all-stars are forgotten.

No doubt they were thinking of Honus - not Richard - Wagner, the notoriously speedy baseball player, but it was a bit of a shame that they had mistaken the great 19th-century German composer with a shortstop. вЂњHe was on the Pittsburgh Pirates,вЂќ one of them shouted emphatically, as if having finally gotten to the bottom of a complex mystery.

I was on the subway this morning when I heard two men talking about a вЂњRichard Wagner.вЂќ They were trying to remember where they had heard the name, eventually concluding that he sounded familiar from their days of collecting baseball cards.

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