What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?

If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.