You can have a lot of theory but without the emotional drive, it's not music. The basic reason we're out there is to make people feel good. He makes the music seem atavistic, pushed by some primal force, not merely learned and mastered. Cerovsek, whose voice never stops smiling, frets little about the exclusiveness associated with classical music. Camaraderie is expressed around a television set watching a sitcom rather than through personal expression.
Classical music has been in the foreground for so long, it deserves a little background time now.
Chestnut has put himself a mission of pulling his medium back into the foreground. I have this vision that jazz can push forth once again and sell out the big stadiums, like the Rolling Stones. For that to happen, I'm making sure I'm doing my part, working it one city at a time, pleasing one audience at a time. This weekend, it's our turn.