People often complain today that we’ve lost our ability to concentrate on one thing at a time, and that in a digital, multimedia culture that promises endless choice and instant gratification, we have forgotten the virtue of patience. Indeed, social commentators have been remarking on this since the arrival of microwave dinners and the television remote control in the 1970s – which took the effort out of cooking and meant you could perpetually switch channels without ever having to watch a TV programme properly. The subsequent internet revolution, which has given us email, online shopping and social networking, has merely accelerated this phenomenon.
Demanding and ambitious, the BBC’s Symphony series recalls a time when Haydn and Mozart were pop. Patrick West, SPIKED, 30.11.2011
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