The premature death of classical music

Here's to all those people prognosing the death of classical music:

"There are exactly 237 known reasons why people have sex. There are at least as many reasons why they listen to classical music, of which to sit in solemn silence on a dull dark dock is only one. There will always be social reasons as well as purely aesthetic ones, and thank God for that. There will always be people who make money from it--and why not?--as well as those who starve for the love of it. Classical music is not dying; it is changing."
--Richard Taruskin

I like the image of classical music as evolving and in flux, rather than dying.