(Cyrus McCrimmon | The Denver Post)  A three-part series  Today:
Relevance lost  Next Sunday: A classical comeback?  Dec. 19: A
new image Can classical music be cool?  Part 1   Leonard
Bernstein followed along in the 1950s and '60s, bringing the New
York Philharmonic into American homes with his televised Young
People's Concerts while soprano Maria Callas was a hot topic for
gossip magazines. Later, virtuosos like Itzhak Perlman and Nadja
Salerno-Sonnenberg took turns chatting with Johnny Carson on
"The Tonight Show."      "I've just heard a lot of people around
the world who say that a lot of times, classical music is just
boring. So, I think that is just a massive problem," said
Michael Christie, who directs the Phoenix Symphony and the
Colorado Music Festival in Boulder.  &quot;I&#8217;ve just heard
a lot of people   who say that a lot of times classical music is
just boring,&quot; said conductor Michael Christie. "I've just
heard a lot of people who say that a lot of times classical
music is just boring,"