... eColumns >> eBook in progress: the future of classical music

This link will serve to function as an eColumn since it is in fact it is updated regularly by the author. The 'book', The Future of Classical Music, deals with important issues that are of major interest and concern to music educators. The author's observations, suggestions, and critiques are directly related to the MDG agenda for "change in music education." Music education majors will profit from being informed of this site; those who find it interesting will be greatly more thoughtful about classical music, and about music in society in general, as a result of regularly consulting the site. So will their professors, regardless of their music specialties.

Greg Sandow, the author, is a composer, a veteran music critic, and a consultant, who has thought and written extensively about the future of classical music. And as a member of the Graduate Studies Faculty at Juilliard -- and, this year, as a visiting professor at Eastman -- he has taught courses on this subject. He is writing a book on it, as well, and has launched the 'book' as an online "performance" (improvisations, heading toward a first draft) as part of his blog on the ArtsJournal site (http://artsjournal.com/greg : this site also has several other music blogs and the music section of ArtsJournal is an excellent source of information about new developments and thinking in the world of music). New episodes of the 'book' appear every two weeks. For more about Greg, see his website, www.gregsandow.com.

Comments from readers are more than welcomed, and can be made on the book site itself or discussed using the related MDG dialog forum (moderated by Tom Regelski). Feedback of this kind can actually be useful to Greg in writing his book.