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I think it's because of commercial music that a) exists in much larger numbers than classical, b) is unashamedly promoted to the public that you may assume that classical music has fallen off the eye of the public.
However, I must tell you that in most concerts and recitals I've been to, the halls are almost full, and even in a concert where they played Penderecki's 8th Symphony, the halls were extraordinarily full. People have been listening to more classical music nowadays than they used to 100 years ago, because 100 years ago there weren't any CDs, DVDs, film soundtracks, tapes, or LPs, so people had to actually go to concerts to listen to music, while now people listen music through all of the above, and go to concerts.
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