A visit earlier this year to two Baroque masterpieces of the Hapsburg Empire—Prague and Vienna—revealed a classical music ecosystem not usually glimpsed from the United States. From the perspective of New York, Philadelphia, or Chicago, classical music appears fundamentally cosmopolitan. Musicians from remote corners of the world perform as orchestra members, soloists, and conductors. The Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute can seem the be-all and end-all of music education, with families across the Far East sacrificing to send their children to those storied training grounds.
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