On the WQXR blog, Midge Woolsey ponders why it's important to keep creating new classical works: "After all, there’s a lot of old music out there so why not work on making good with that and forget about creating anything new?"

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Since the first panpipes, musicians have attempted to imitate the human voice in non-vocal music.