利弊类大作文，文化类话题
Fewer and fewer young people go to concerts to listen to classical music. What are the reasons? Do you think it is a positive or negative development?
题目来源：2020年12月19日亚太雅思大作文
题目大意
去音乐会听古典音乐的年轻人越来越少。原因何在？你认为这是一个积极的发展还是消极的发展？
思路解析
这是一道利弊类大作文，讨论的是年轻人越来越少去音乐会听古典音乐的原因和利弊分析，所以主体段我们就可以分为两段，一段讲原因，一段分析利弊。
首先来看原因，月半鸭相信很多考鸭压根没听过古典音乐，更不要说去音乐会听了。所以本身作为年轻人的大家可以自己思考下，为什么不去听古典音乐。月半鸭认为主要原因有三个。
一是大家会要去听古典乐本质上是需要一种休闲娱乐手段，说到底目的是为了娱乐。而对于年轻人来说，娱乐手段是非常多样的，比如打游戏、玩桌游、看电影等等，这些相比较古典乐更加轻松、更容易获得快感。因此，多样化的娱乐选择让古典乐对于年轻人的吸引度不足。
二是如果一定要听音乐的话，古典音乐从一开始就不为公众所接受，相比较流行乐、摇滚乐等需要更加专业的知识。对那些精通这一领域的人来说是友好的，他们很容易发现音乐家之间在作曲方面的细微差别，比如模式、和弦和乐句，或者表演者在演奏音符和乐章时的风格之间的差异，通过不同的力度或节奏来反映他们对于乐章的理解。然而，对于只想听节奏或和声来产生兴奋的公众来说，这并不友好。因此，年轻人更容易去选择听流行乐、摇滚乐这些贴近日常生活的音乐。
三是因为科技的进步，听古典音乐的手段也变得更多样。如果你确实想听古典音乐，也没有必要花钱去音乐会听，而是可以选择成本更低的收音机或者互联网的手段来听古典音乐。
聊完原因我们来看看利弊趋势，月半夜认为对于古典乐是弊大于利的。
古典乐的年轻受众越少，意味着将来整个受众群体越少，首先这对古典乐的传播和推广越不利，其次，受众少意味着其演出场次会变得更少，进而使得相关的从业者所能获得的收入变少。因此可能会部分人转行或者更少新人从事这个行业。人才的流失这对于古典乐的发展也是不利的。
提纲
范文示例
It happens so naturally that fewer young people are attracted by classical music in nowadays society, and I believe the future of this culture is neither a positive or negative development.
The nature of classical music and multiple choices owned by young people today make the former increasingly not that attractive. Classical music is not easily publicly acceptable from the outset it had been composed, and that is even truer in this day’s society. This area is only friendly to those who are expertise, easy for them to find the subtle differences between musicians in compositing, say, the patterns, chords, and music events, or between performers' styles in playing the notes and movements with diversified forces or tempos to reflect their interpretations. However, it is not friendly to the public who only want to listen to the rhythms or melodies to trigger the production of dopamine. Worse yet, classical music becomes even less attractive when it is much further away from people in modern society. Not everyone would bother to try to understand how those pieces reflect things happening in the Baroque or Classical period; these are far away from the life in today’s world. Compared with those confusions, young people today have more choices in their daily entertainment. They can listen to other types of music instead such as Jazz, rock and folk music; these types of music are certainly much closer to their life and related concerts are more accessible, exciting and dopamine-triggering. Even if one is still crazy about classical music, there is still no need to go to a concert nowadays because there are so many other ways to listen to them, which are considered somehow better. Live shows are expensive especially when the orchestra bands are globally famous, but listening over the internet – if the recording system is excellent enough – is also available and cost-friendly.
While some are panic about the future of classical music, I would believe that the truth would be somewhere in the middle. The trend of people less likely to listen to classical music concerts is certainly not an optimistic one, since the more people are in awe of those pieces of music, the less possible they thrive in modern society. However, there is still no need to worry about that. Even if this trend is considered to have limitations on classical music, those masterpieces still have their ways to live sustainably. Classical music playing is still considered the foundation of almost all instrument performances, and there are always people devoting themselves to research and spread the culture. On the other hand, the notation that the characteristics of a specific art that only attract the minority are what make it different from others, and are what determine its development is also a misconception. It is true that If it were facing fate to pander the public, it would be added with more commercial elements, elements that are deviating it from its original path, but knowing that there would be no modern classical musicians willing to compose pieces with pure classical styles, we know full well that the future for classical music is also not that bright. Classical music concerts may end up losing their shares in the market; this area seems extremely difficult for practitioners to sustain their living.
In conclusion, the nature of classical music makes it somehow not so well accepted by young people and they are unwilling to go to concerts for it; there is still no need to over panic, but we should also not be too optimistic about its future.
