Giving plastic recorders to students 'is worthless'. 'We don't have to train three thousand musicians in a school, we have to teach them how to listen to music'

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Giving plastic recorders to students 'is worthless'. 'We don't have to train three thousand musicians in a school, we have to teach them how to listen to music'

INTERVIEW || Martim Sousa Tavares shows how music is made of time. Of times that reject haste. 'People need to realise they have much more to gain if they don't wish to have everything in a five-minute version'. Of contrasts in time. 'The worst audiences in classical music are not the young, they are the old. It is the old who cough, who sleep during concerts'. Of new times. 'Artificial intelligence music is no worse than 90% of pop music, which is a real rubbish dump'. And of the things that only the passage of time allows us to confirm. 'In 100 years, we will know who the geniuses were that, in 2026, were walking among us'.

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