I am afraid that I do not have the answer either.
yoko mentioned that there are very many young music students in Asia, and I do believe that they work very hard and take a deep interest in intelligent music. Maybe it will depend on them if the symphony in its present state survives. The same goes for composition.
quote:Having mulled over these questions for a year or more, with openmindedness ad absurdum, I naturally cannot provide a single answer. Or, to be more accurate, I can provide far too many answers, all of them possibly true. For each question there are two answers, roughly corresponding to yes and no, and attended by innumerable variations.
For the moment, let's enjoy the orchestra as it is.