Kurt Andersen and Greg Sandow find what's right and wrong with the symphony orchestra in America, and consider what orchestras need to do to survive.
Greg Sandow is a widely published critic and educator. He is the classical music writer for The Wall Street Journal and a frequent contributor to Symphony and NewMusicBox, and formerly served as music editor of Entertainment Weekly. A consultant to the Pittsburgh Symphony, he is helping to make its concerts more accessible to audiences. Sandow is also a composer, currently at work on an opera based on As You Like It. He teaches a course at the Juilliard School on the future of classical music called "Breaking Barriers: Classical Music in an Age of Pop."





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