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So I'm kind of new to the classical music genre, so I wanted to get some opinions from some of the vets around here...where do you see the classical music genre going in the coming years?

Personally, I believe it's managed to stay the way it is for long that it will never change.

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I'm not sure how it's going to change, but I can certainly tell you it's going to change. In fact, it's already changed quite a bit since its birth. For instance, going to a performance now is nothing like it was even a few centuries ago: people will get up in the middle of performances, they serve refreshments a lot of times, and I've even seen some people whisper and make comments throughout the entire performance.

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I'm not really one of the experts around here, but it seems to me that it has changed quite a bit actually. In both the sense of how it is played and what is considered classical music. As for where it is going, I think more things will continue to be classified classical when, for the most part, they really aren't.

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I'm not sure I completely disagree with Duey here. Sure, some things are considered classical that shouldn't be, but, as a whole, it seems very similar to how it was even hundreds of years ago.