I’m tired of hearing kvetches about how the major classical performing arts institutions don’t do enough to attract a younger audience. The reality is that our society has done everything it can to prevent young potential audiences from ever gravitating toward some of the greatest works of art ever created.
In Curtains? The Future of the Arts in America, Kaiser writes, “Today we have a generation of college students who did not routinely receive arts programming in elementary in high school—a generation that is, by and large, culturally illiterate with respect to classical repertory.”