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Are you listening?  I am.  What are you listening to?  The digital age has brought on a huge industrial and cultural revolution.  This is major.  Are you listening on your computer? With headphones or earbuds? You tube? In your car?  Or do you still sit in front of your carefully selected hi-fi system with the speakers placed in the perfect place for your listening experience?

The digital age has changed everything.  Accessiblity, the connections we can make with colleagues, the lack of geography, and definitely the speed with which we can communicate have all changed.  But how have our listening habits and expectations changed?  How has listening to Brahms with earbuds and an i-pod affected what we hear and where we hear it and what else we are doing while we are hearing it?  How about those old-fashioned liner notes?  I learned a lot about music history and the artists reading those well thought out liner notes. 

Is this new listening experience good for classical music? Or irrelevant?  Is the new accessibility presented by the internet improving the health of the arts or further squeezing the classical arts into extinction?  Does this new exposure bring more people to concerts? 

Optimists will likely think it brings hope to building excitement for our future.  The lack of geography is great for musicians-violists- who are looking for inspiration and discussion with each other.  That is my hope for the VIOLATRIBE.  Please bring your recommendations, your questions, your new music, and of course tell us how you are listening.