"Everything is going to change and people will expect their music to be as available as their water or their heating." "I have the feeling that films, music - whatever - will be on this large screen in the house. People will want to dial up concerts whenever as they do HBO" Rattle said. Yet the 53-year-old Liverpool, England native refuses to see the transformation to digital, on-demand music as a negative, insisting the ability to reach out to fans anywhere, anytime in no way detracts from what distinguishes the Berlin Philharmonic from other ensembles - it's sound.
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