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Post by webm@ster on Dec 4, 2003 20:40:58 GMT -5
Former Hear'Say singer Myleene Klass - now forging a career in classical music - has called for classical music to be made more accessible to the general public. Klass, whose recent debut album Moving On featured music by Elgar, Beethoven, and Michael Nyman, said that classical music remained too "elitist."
"Donning a leather jacket doesn't just suddenly make you accessible, it is the whole package," Klass told BBC World Service's The Music Biz programme.
"I think that's what the classical world needs to give. Let's get everything to the same edgy degree that the pop world's got at, because it looks stronger on the television - none of this soft-focus classical nonsense.
"Let's make it edgy, let's make it current, let's make it exciting."
Wolfgang Amadeus Timberlake
Klass trained at London's Royal Academy of Music before trying for the group that would eventually become Hear'Say on the Pop Idol programme.
Mozart - the Justin Timberlake of his day? Despite record-breaking sales for the debut single Pure And Simple, the group went into sharp decline and split in 2002, less than two years after forming.
Klass pointed out that Mozart wrote pieces for the popular audience, and that it was important to stress he was not elitist - although he is now seen that way.
"When he wrote he never wrote with that [elitist] mindset. He was a bit of a party animal. He was a real person, he wasn't a saint," she said.
"He was the Justin Timberlake of his time, and that's the closet thing that people can relate to.
"As soon as you say that, Beethoven would probably have been the Liam Gallagher of his time.
"It's just about putting it into a box that people can understand it in, without necessarily putting it into a classical box."
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