How Classical Crossover Ran Amok And Ran Aground

The Three Tenors franchise was hardly great opera, but it was effective, and Yo-Yo Ma’s various crossover projects are genuinely good. So how did we get from The Silk Road Project to Hildegard von Bingen club remixes to The Shirtless Violinist and the quartet Well-Strung? Basically, writes James Bennett, II, blame the suits. – WQXR (New York City)