James Rhodes On Awards In Classical Music

Pianist James Rhodes offers some refreshingly frank thoughts about the classical music industry. He claims the industry “has been divided into sharks on the one hand (anything for a buck, even if it involves bastardising the music to an unrecognisable degree)  and the “purebloods” on the other – the Aryan race of the music world where this music is reserved for those who are intelligent and rarefied enough to understand it.”

Click here for the full feature in The Guardian.

 

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