Could it be that we are witnessing the end of orchestras, and consequently, orchestral, symphonic music?
The question grounds have tried to answer the main reasons why yes or no would have such an end: economic, financing. On the one hand, the taste of the public has diversified greatly; It ie the same person today, like different kinds of music, without shame and without problems.
Also, on the other hand, access to recorded music is becoming broader and more economical. You do not need expensive equipment to enjoy good music: to have a fairly acceptable phone, or a digital player or computer, and any fan can hear what he pleases. Added to this is access to platforms, paid or free, where everyone personalize your selection. That is, in the last three decades, have been removed at a stroke: one's forced to a concert to listen to music and favorite interpreter assistance; two Discotienda attendance to pray that the album is sought may be; three tenure expensive equipment player.
To all this we add that, in the case of symphony orchestras, and covered in the hackneyed argument of "the classics are the classics," there is no way that the repertoire is updated, it will improve. Stop once and for all interpreting Beethoven or Mozart or Mahler or Shostakovich !, as if the world were no more authors, more composers, present and past.
Clearly, the world, the public gets tired. If you raise the price of the ticket office, you ensure a percentage less assistance.
In addition, musicians should eat, and must spend much of their time to be fit and ready to make music, which is no small thing. This implies that a musician can not be a musician of a symphony orchestra and baker at the same time. Or you take care of the violin or knead you mind. There is no way.
This is a problem that already has decades worrying artistic directors and patrons, and boy have given laps. What you need to do is address the problem, with the likes and dislikes of rigor. Perhaps it is high time when symphony orchestras become something else, or arising in another case.
