Don't apologise for classical music's complexity – that's its strength

Naysayers argue classical music is being chased to extinction by technology. But young audiences in search of authentic experiences are embracing it more than ever before, says Alan Davey, controller of Radio 3Earlier this year John Adams read classical music its last rites. It was, he said in an interview on Radio 3, not at all certain that as a genre it would survive the shortened attention spans of the Twitter generation. Nor might opera survive, except in the hands of companies churning out