Today at twenty past seven my girlfriend got a call from a festival manager in Salzburg: “Can you be here in 10 minutes to turn pages in a chamber music concert?” She could … and she took me along, too. We had no idea what was on the program, nor did we know who actually played. Breathlessly we arrived at the Mozarteum where everybody was already waiting for the concert to start. I was lucky to find an empty seat before the musicians came onto the stage. What was on the program? Mozart Piano Trio K 502, Piano Quartets K 478 and 493, and Gesänge über ‘Deh vieni alla finestra’ by Gerhard Schedl (1957-2000) – an all-Mozart program if you will. Schedl’s composition was a set of mildly interesting variations on Don Giovanni’s famous serenade. The piece sounded like a leaf of music that has been trimmed with avantgarde scissors at the edges. Mozart’s theme in the middle, New Music put nicely around it. The musicians – with the exception of the pianist Vincent Coq – were visibly bored and underprepared. No wonder that the audience paid no attention. I had to think about Greg Sandow’s The Future of Classical Music quite a bit during the piece: if New Music is presented in such an uninspired way, how can we expect it to find new audiences? Probably the future of classical music will not necessarily arrive at concerts like this.