This couldn’t be farther from the truth. For one thing, as Johnston points out, “what we now see as classical music was the pop music of its day.” It’s not a different art form, on a fundamental level, from what’s created by your Adeles, or your Beyoncés, or your Charlie Parkers, or your Joni Mitchells or Rolling Stones, or your Ezra Collectives. But also it has its own deep magic, an ability to conjure emotion and landscape, which plenty of young people would jump at the chance of experiencing more of. To be, as Gramophone puts it, entranced, moved and uplifted.