Rock vs Classical from our guest Wei

When a friend got to know I was going to England, he said, "After one year there, you will be an expert on Rock music."

Now I think he is quite right. England is the dreamland for rock music. Even a person like me, definitely not a fan, could list a long list of musicians and band of rock of England: the Beatles, Oasis, Cold Play, Muse... All my friends of England would put rock music in their "interest" on their facebook profile (Facebook is a recently very popular on-line alumni network.); Their favorite birthday present would be the CD of their hero of rock music; I even heard that before Tony Blair became the prime minister of England, his biggest dream was to have his own band. While in England, the young people, especially high school and university students are big fans of the rock music, the audience of classical music are quite of another age bracket.

There is a free lunchtime concert on campus every Thursday afternoon, mainly about classical music. I attend it whenever I have time. I still remember when I entered the concert hall for the first time, I found myself the only black-haired person there. Others were mostly elder people. I thought that it might be the wrong with the time, which is inconvenient for most of the students. But several times after, I still did not find many young people other than me. I came to understand there is a invisible but clear division of the music taste between young and elder people in England.

Yet I still have no idea how a rock fan will turn to be a classical music lover when he reaches 60.