Classical Music
As jazz flourished, American elites who preferred classical music sought to expand the listenship of their favored genre, hoping that jazz wouldn't become mainstream. Conversely, jazz became an influence on composers as diverse as George Gershwin and Herbert Howells.
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“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)