Classical music ain’t dead, brother. It’s just weepin….

This just in from Morris Robinson, principal artist at Houston Grand Opera:

Walking to the store here in Uptown NYC, I see a young brother halfway leaning out the window of his massively tinted, new model Nissan, sittin on them shiny thangs (Rims). He has on a black wife beater, tattoo’d throughout his neck, shoulders and arms … baseball cap on slightly tilted … chillin.

His radio is blasting, and I remove my ear buds because I THINK I hear something, but I’m really not sure.

Me, being the bold brother that I am, walked right up to his car door and asked, “Is that the Lacrymosa from the Mozart Requiem?” He turns down the radio, and asks “What you say?”

“Lacrymosa, Mozart Requiem?”

He says, “Oh. Yeah dawg!”

I smiled, put my ear buds back in, and walked off.

Classical music ain’t dead … we just need to open up our MINDS to the fact that the demographic of the audience is far more diversified than we could ever imagine.