Word: musication
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...musicians to explore the significance of those who were simply popular in their own time. Title aside, Wald does it without slamming the Fab Four. He spoke with TIME about the origins of rock 'n' roll's racial divide, the way technology is changing the way we listen to music and the future of music...
...were they a problem? The Beatles were the first superstar pop group to simply cease to exist except on record. As late as the 1940s, pop music was what bands played when people went out dancing. The records were just what you listened to at home. The Beatles were the first group to realize that pop had become records, and that they never needed to step on a stage again in their lives. That's a huge shift, and [although] I think it would have happened without them, they were the catalysts...
...music you performed at the start of your career is still being performed today. Well-known pieces by composers like Mozart and Brahms are what audiences expect to hear. Is there room out there for new works by contemporary composers? In an art museum, there's a permanent collection of the masters, and then there's the visiting collection of newer work. It's the same thing in music. In the great cities of the world, there's definitely an audience for the new. And I think it's our duty to promote the new music...
...have trouble believing you're going to hang up your clarinet for good once you retire. I expect to be involved in music. I'm a player, and a player will always play. I've really been very lucky to have done this for my life's work...
...think the publishing industry is under great stress trying to figure out how to operate in a world where it's very easy to make copies of things and to distribute copies of things - which is exactly the problem that the music industry faced," says Paul Courant, dean of libraries at the University of Michigan...