Posted AT 5:00 AM EDT on 22/11/07
The perils of ignoring classical music
Toronto — Pinchas Zukerman told a U.S. newspaper last week that if more people don't start appreciating classical music, we could have riots in the streets."If it's not synonymous with our existence, or at least 5 to 6 per cent of the population, then society will become a jungle," the violinist and National Arts Centre Orchestra music director told an interviewer for The Denver Post.
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