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and the danger is that orchestras play a limited repertoire the last maybe 200 years, the music of the last 200 years. now, what will happen in 500 years, will we still listen to those 200 years? i don t think so. don t you, really? no, i think we have to reform. the idea that you mentioned earlier, playing beethoven s ninth, i mean, to take that as just one of the best known pieces of music in the world, everybody really thinks of it as completely timeless, that as long as there is human civilisation, there will be beethoven, there will be bach, there will be mozart. are you saying maybe we re wrong? if you sit in your car and you open the radio, what do you hear? you hear a bit of beethoven, you hear a bit of bruckner, and you hear heavy metal and you hear indian ragas and you hear rap songs. it s a mix. this is our language today,
what do you hear? you hear a bit of beethoven, you hear a bit of bruckner, and you hear heavy metal and you hear indian ragas and you hear rap songs. it s a mix. this is our language today, the mix, whatever comes to you from the car radio. this is the musical language of the present generation. if a symphony orchestra only provides a small segment of that, it will not survive. it has to open the repertoire into many directions, and this is what we try to do step by step. for example, we have a group in our orchestra who play baroque music on original instruments. we have another group who play transylvanian folk music, for example, we sing like a chorus. and we open these boundaries
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