Games

I generally agree with his sentiment; I even saw an argument that, if you include video game, film, and television scoring in the scope of classical, then classical is more popular these days than rock.

However, his brief overview of the history of classical music is flawed. Orchestral music did eventually become more popular with the masses, but it was always limited to the urban cores where the patrons and ergo the symphony orchestras were. The folks in the hinterlands had, well, folk music, the thing he depicts as only snowballing once radio comes around. And for that matter, the classical repertoire is more than just symphony pieces, there’s plenty of classical pieces that only clock in at a few minutes. He also fails to mention the economic factor with declining orchestra attendance, those tickets are expensive.