Mariss Jansons conducting the Vienna Philharmonic

THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC’S New Year’s Day concert scored record television ratings this week. As I wrote here, the Austrian orchestra has resisted the multicultural and feminist changes embraced by most of the Western music world.

In a related post at Camera Lucida, Kidist Paulos Asrat writes about Asians and classical music. It is hard to imagine Japan or China or Korea devoting comparable resources to training and employing North American-born musicians. Yet Asians are so prevalent in North American orchestras that it is conceivable they will someday dominate the field.

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