Charles Dutoit: Young musicians today have no culture

Charles Dutoit: Young musicians today have no culture

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norman lebrecht

August 18, 2017

From a Telegraph interview with Ivan Hewitt:

‘Nowadays young musicians have everything under their fingertips, they can learn a new piece just by listening to it on YouTube. They are amazingly well-informed but they have no culture. In my day everything was slow, but it meant that it was rooted. You had to seek things out and work on them slowly with the score. ‘

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