Alas, the requiem is premature. Classical music, although shrinking, is not a dying piece of culture. It's growing once again, and in the coming years we should expect it to grow even more. Reasons are empirical, demographic, and cultural. Classical enthusiast should be buying up classical CDs now, or even better, learning how to master an instrument, because the old is the new...
The neo-classicals are coming in..
I've got the random info off my chest, now here's some life drawing sessions done in photoshop.