Youth out of tune with classical music

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Our country is full of budding musicians, and there’s no dearth of aspirants joining the music industry.

However, in a recent interview lyricist Prasoon Joshi pointed out that young Indian musicians are ignoring traditional music. We asked Delhi-based musicians and avid music fans if they agree that classical music is on decline.
Sarthak Kush, guitarist and vocalist at Middle Finger Theory, rock band, feels that it is important to have a classical background, but these days even if you don’t have a traditional base you can survive. He says, “In school, I learned classical music, but since I started playing for a rock band I rarely go back to it. We are a generation that has been raised on popular music, and we have grown up listening to Bollywood songs. So when Bollywood stopped using classical music we too stopped listening to it.”
Nishank Sharma, lead vocalist of The Local People, says, “I feel it is not important to learn Indian music. Even if you don’t learn Indian classical music, it comes back in different forms and keeps evolving.”
However, DJ Varun Singh, says, “These days every sound can be engineered on computerised devices, so even when musicians use sitar or flute or even folk music it doesn’t have to be original. Most people don’t even know classical music and simply use pre-recorded sounds when they have to compose new music.”