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Classical Music: Alive and Kicking
December 26, 2007 / By

I doubt that rejection of modernism is what drove Baby Boomers away from classical music; they weren’t there in the first place. Part of their act of rebellion was to put a minus sign on anything their parents found important and classical music was seen as part of the conformity and stuffiness of the middle class life they rejected.