House concerts

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

"[E]qual parts recital and party," these classical house concerts have small and crowded venues packed (they do sell out in NYC) with 20-somethings. 

“Modern audiences are willing to sacrifice what musicians think of as acoustic superiority in favor of proximity,” said Fleming. He enjoys these kinds of performances, where he feels he connects with the audience.

Violinist Annika, 20, agrees, “It’s exciting for us, to literally have people sitting almost in your lap.”

"The last generation to broadly love classical music may simply be aging, like World War I veterans, out of existence." I sure hope not. As Groupmuse's founder says, "All you need is one or two of these evenings to understand that Beethoven is no joke.”