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when I began my career as a concert pianist I was in my 20s I had joined the contemporary music group Da Capo chamber blares based in New York and I found myself touring the country and I began to ask myself is the classical music concert form dead I couldn't help but wonder why the audiences were so different from me I mean the audiences were old and the format was very predictable and I had real concerns about the tameness and predictability of the whole scene especially because the music that I was performing was far from that not just contemporary music but even the great classical repertoire of Beethoven and of Chopin is daring and it concerned me that the setting was no longer daring itself then in nineteen ninety I was teaching at Bard College in upstate New York and together with Leon Botstein we founded the bard music festival this really in many ways launched thematic programming and it was within a very historical context that was very exciting to me and yet I think I was st