Last year, the British critic Philip Clark had a provocative response to the perennial question of how to save classical music from its so-called image problem"the perception that it is stuffy, élitist, and irrelevant. He declared, "There is absolutely nothing wrong with classical music. It cannot pretend to be anything other than it is. And perhaps it's the wider cultural environment . . . that has a probl…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 07:23AM on March 28, 2016