“The visceral thrill of live music comes in part from the relish of a player or a singer or an orchestra for performance, and also from the challenge to an audience to consider what it has heard. Did they pull it off? If there is a threat to the place of serious music in the future it comes not from the possibility of composers ceasing to compose – they won’t, for better or worse – but from a dilution of that excitement. If orchestras don’t adapt, if concert halls and opera houses don’t find ever more ingenious ways of competing against other attractions, they will wither on the vine.”