In this case he will become
the free mediator between the classical music creator and the listener
without any inspectors whatsoever.
The places of music training, i.e. the music colleges, music academies and
conservatoires are not at all prepared for this situation perhaps
that is better so. Then they cant disturb this process of development
in an incompetent way.
But therefore, at the same time, this process will bring the end of these
music institutions. So, your question Can one learn music in a place
of training? has been settled in a natural way.
I can still remember: when I was small, many people made their way briskly
to the Ruhr Valley like to the Promised Land to participate in lucrative
coal-mining.
This gold-digging spirit has not only long gone, but other developments
have taken over coal-mining in such a way, that these people are faced with
great problems, as to how they will earn a living.
This whole scenario, from the beginning to the heyday until the end, has
not even lasted 50 years, and nobody will doubt that, according to todays
level of knowledge, conventional coal-mining in the Ruhr Valley no longer
has a future.
The same applies to the symphony and/or opera orchestra only that
here, the artistic end will probably not be the decisive element, but the
end due to health reasons.
The orchestras future is therefore not a musical or artistic problem,
but a medical one.
And in a time when people are concerned with a general reduction of costs
in the medical sector, these efforts will not stop for the orchestra.
Just as coal-mining in the Ruhr district, whilst at death's door, is nowadays
still being artificially subsidised from outside, and discussions about
the end of these subsidies make peoples feelings run high, the symphonic
or operatic orchestra is also artificially subsidised from the outside in
the same way, and with discusssions about the subsidies their end is foreseeable.
Many individual fates are involved in these developments in coal-mining
as in the symphonic orchestra , but its no use turning a blind
eye on the facts of new developments.
Its much more worthwhile to adjust and adapt in time. Music existed
prior to the symphonic and operatic orchestras, and it will go on existing.
There is no need to mourn for music.