{"id":4046,"date":"2016-03-25T09:48:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T22:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4046"},"modified":"2021-09-06T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T00:10:35","slug":"bugs-bunny-can-save-classical-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4046","title":{"rendered":"Bugs Bunny can save classical music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The future of classical music lies with the younger generation, which must be weaned away from the cacophony of rock and the neon glitter of \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d-type TV shows. Instead of dragging children to concerts, where they squirm with boredom, rent some old movies featuring soundtracks of classical music.<\/p>\n<p>Even toddlers can be exposed to classical music through animated films like \u201cFantasia\u201d and \u201cPeter and the Wolf.\u201d Elementary schoolchildren would love \u201cWhat\u2019s Opera, Doc?\u201d (1957), with its thrilling Wagnerian soundtrack as Elmer Fudd chases Bugs Bunny. Tell them the great music is by Richard Wagner. At least this audience will not think that he pitched for the Yankees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Les Dreyer, &#8220;Invitation to a Dialogue: Saving Classical Music&#8221;, <em>The New York Times<\/em>, 16 November 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"\u02cdblank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The future of classical music lies with the younger generation, which must be weaned away from the cacophony of rock and the neon glitter of \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d-type TV shows. Instead of dragging children to concerts, where they squirm with boredom, rent some old movies featuring soundtracks of classical music. Even toddlers can be exposed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387],"tags":[604,730],"class_list":["post-4046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-audience-reception","tag-classical-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6305,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions\/6305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}