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Classical music companies around the world are working to connect with younger audiences - perhaps they could learn some thing from their younger musicians. All over the country groups of young classical musicians have begun playing in bars - like any other young band trying to make it. The result has been phenomenal - packed bars full of cheering fans. Young people do like old music after all it turns out - you just have to bring it to them - Nathanael Johnson went to check out the people who started this classical revolution, in San Francisco.
The group in Montreal is called "Montreal Rennaissance"
There are folks doing classical music in bars in Cincinatti, Chicago, New York, Dublin, Berlin, many other places.
Classical Revolution taking the forefront of this movement in San Francisco, Portland, and Reno so far."
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Classical music companies around the world are working to connect with younger audiences - perhaps they could learn some thing from their younger musicians. All over the country groups of young classical musicians have begun playing in bars - like any other young band trying to make it. The result has been phenomenal - packed bars full of cheering fans. Young people do like old music after all it turns out - you just have to bring it to them - Nathanael Johnson went to check out the people who started this classical revolution, in San Francisco. The group in Montreal is called "Montreal Rennaissance" There are folks doing classical music in bars in Cincinatti, Chicago, New York, Dublin, Berlin, many other places. Classical Revolution taking the forefront of this movement in San Francisco, Portland, and Reno so far."
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Aired locally in SF on KALW 91.7
Transcript
AMB: Streetnoise
This is the sound of San Francisco?s Mission district on any given night
AMB: walking inside SoCha
But if I just step inside SoCha Caf? here, the soundscape changes. Five musicians in their 20s and early 30s are seated in a semi circle playing stringed instruments. Around them people are drinking beer and chatting. It?s probably a lot noisier than the last live classical performance that you went to, but then again here you can get a lot closer. And the performers seem to be having more fun. As the viola makes a little motif he dips his shoulder as if to toss it too the cello ? here:
Da dumpa dum
And she ?
Da dumpa dum
Raises her eyebrows and tosses it back with a nod of her head.
Many of these people are professional musicians, like violinist Jory Fankuchen
?And the idea sort of is to bring classical music to audience that doesn?t...
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