Kirsten acknowledged that women have had an agonizingly difficult time gaining a creative foothold in classical music, whose repertory is male-dominated to a stifling degree.
Young music fans more used to listening to pop are instead tuning into Henry Purcell, as classical music gains a foothold in Britain's youth culture.
A fluid technician with a foothold in the classical tradition, he has always done well to indulge his exploratory urges, pushing beyond the respectable sprawl of his comfort zone.
That last name appears on the album cover, and for good reason: Mr. Zimmerli, a product of the same high school jazz program as Mr. Mehldau, is responsible for the album's stern, ingenious arrangements, which reflect his foothold in contemporary classical music.
There was something symbolic in Edison's inability to register so titanic a presence as Brahms: despite Caruso's fame, and despite later fads for Toscanini, Bernstein, and Glenn Gould, classical music had a hard time getting a foothold in this slippery terrain.
Fans of the classical world are delighted to discover Ancient Greece's firm foothold in the key stage 2 primary curriculum which begins next September.
It was Gould's recordings of Goldberg that really provided me with a way in, with a foothold, because up to that point, I had thought of, for lack of a better word, "classical" music as being something that was fairly rhythmically disconnected from the body.
We have a foothold in Russia, but I think that Russia can be much larger because it has a huge classical music and opera-loving audience.
"We had a foothold there.
