Is the pipe organ and its music outdated? In the age of AI, almost anyone can make music with almost anything. What is the value of live music from acoustic instruments when artificial sources abound?
There is something special about relics, rituals and traditions –the meticulous rigour and practice to produce the piece of art or music. (Think of the Japanese!) And so it is with music from the ages, produced by instruments who’s blueprint comes from past ages. They touch us in ways that perhaps the mass market, quick-and-easy can’t.
