Get with the contemporary classical programme? We already have | Tom Service

Alex Ross makes a valid point about many concertgoers' dislike of new music, but British audiences are ahead of the game. If only we could speed up the processThere's already a healthy debate going on in response to Alex Ross's article. Some of the comments agree with him that music has a particular problem, or suggest that John Cage et al really are the equivalent of the emperor's new clothes; others – rightly, in my view – exhort the naysayers to "open your mind, experience the new, and yo...

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