Deceptive Cadence debates: does classical music need fixing?

Deceptive Cadence, NPR's classical music blog, has been discussing whether classical music needs fixing:

If there is one thing we can count on in classical music it's that people will continue to argue over its future. Is it dying a slow death? Or is it relatively healthy, merely hitting a few bumps in an awfully rocky economic road? – Thomas Huizenga

NPR has collected opinions from prominent performers and composers. Among the contributors are several who have studied and/or taught at Yale:

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