Concentration

@devinplombier jazz was prohibited in the Soviet Union during Stalin’s regime. It was considered decadent bourgeois, western propaganda and a threat to communist/socialist ideology. People were arrested for distributing jazz recordings. If they found someone performing jazz in an underground club there would be severe consequences. 

We’re definitely headed towards full de-evolution. I don’t know where you stand on the concept of what you just posted but it is a living proof that some are way ahead of the game. 

Classical music is as visceral as Jazz but in his own ways...

Musical time is not metronomical time nor acoustical time and in classical as in Jazz, the interpretation of what is written by the musicians or their improvisation together, together with or without a director, must create a time dimension of its own where our soul/body meet.

Music experience of any cultures is rooted in "timbre" experience and is universal. Our body participation as players or as listeners to the vibrating sound source resonate as a new timing and time dimensions...

Rythms are the root and timbre is the tree whose branchs are many  new time dimensions. Concentration is born in our body real or virtual response gestures to the music perceived and/or created.

@audphile1 

I was talking about the general disconnect in democratic society between classical music and non-listeners, likely due to the perception of that genre’s elite origins.

Music bans by totalitarian regimes are a whole different ball of wax. The Taliban bans all music, musicians, and instruments. Compare to Stalin’s laissez-faire :)

@devinplombier  

“classical is perhaps the only music genre that periodically faces calls to be either removed from the curricula of public universities or to have public subsidy of its study and performance curtailed or ended”

I don’t know where you get your information, but as someone who is in the business I can tell you that it’s far from the truth.

Well yeah those who have a playlist that contains Cardi B’s WAP have a general disconnect. But not all is lost. 
 

I still don’t know why you made that statement originally and what your source for information was and I’m not questioning it. I learned to just use these types of posts for their sole purpose - entertainment