Classical Music in Western Culture Today – speech delivered to the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
3rd February 1998
Declining audiences, government cuts, disastrous CD sales, sponsors pulling out of the arts, fewer children learning instruments, and a total lack of interest from the general media – unless semi-naked bimbo violinists or something like the David Helfgott circus are involved. This is the reality of classical music in the West today.
