The future of classical music
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TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
Too many of them foreign composers comin in. I’m a Gilbert & George man then Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Tony L
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Tons of amazingly good recent stuff; Arvo Part, Johan Johansson, Riley, Reich, Gorecki etc etc. Huge amounts of amazing fairly recent music that will stay the distance, an active classical performance market and a wealth of astonishing young talent going through places like RNCM. There will obviously be a performance dip during covid 19, but I bet a lot of fresh composing is happening thanks to social distancing.
Mike Reed
pfm Member
Some film music has attained classical status and will presumably continue in that vein, but will always be associated with the film it was composed for, unlike the centuries of music beforehand.
Don't understand your second sentence. D'you mean that you don't have the musical depth and breadth to accommodate and appreciate this genre?
If only someone could tell me what the hell on earth defines "classical", most especially modern/current classical? Lack of a guitar?
Seems to me that a major part of definition is minority interest - great - plenty of that to be had.
Where current "classical" composers struggle is that unlike 100+ years ago, there are no private benefactors who will pay to feed them, but miraculousy, they still come through.
See also the "Another Timbre" thread.
Seems to me that a major part of definition is minority interest - great - plenty of that to be had.
Where current "classical" composers struggle is that unlike 100+ years ago, there are no private benefactors who will pay to feed them, but miraculousy, they still come through.
See also the "Another Timbre" thread.
I find that impossible to believe. There MUST be some of his music that grabs you to some degree - get searching
Isn't this the same as "jazz was great until 194x ? Or 195x ? Or 196x " ?
windhoek
The Phoolosopher
Black Classical Composers doc on BBC iPlayer - as the question is posed, why don't we know more about them?
Tony L
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PaulMB
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In his lovely book about classical music, Stephen Fry suggests that after Aaron Copland, Britten, Stravinsky, Bernstein and a couple of others I can't remember, the old classical music as general audience entertainment has split. On the one hand stuff for a very small "in crowd" that follows modern, experimental compositions, which most people understandably find incomprehensible. On the other, music written for films, which appeals to the general audience.
wow&flutter
pfm Member
Those old b....rs Bach and Beethoven have got really lazy these days. I’ve seen nothing new for years!
Mike Reed
pfm Member
Must admit, I've never appreciated Igor, but Gustav is a different kettle of fish; his Planet Suite alone contains so much melody, including Jupiter (I vow to thee, my country....). One definition of classical music stops at 1830. I'd say that 1830 was bang in the middle if you omit renaissance stuff.