Classical music's twentieth-century tragedy

Timesonline.co.uk ^ | April 30, 2008 | Ian Bostridge

[forkinsocket]

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

Related “ping” to you. :)

[the invisib1e hand]

somehow the "malaise" classical music afficionadoes feel is the fault of rich American white men. I can just tell.

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The Pope happens to prefer classical music.

[mylife]

I’m calling BS
Classical music is alive and well and finds new audiences all the time AND modern rock and roll, all modern music.. is based on the “call and response” pattern of western classical composition

[colinhester]

Ping for later read while I listen to one of my 6000 classical LPs...

[EggsAckley]

Thank you for posting this. I did a thesis on a similar topic called “The Industrialization of Music,” which I feel began around the time of Mozart and Beethoven, and then swept the landscape after the French Revolution. Very interesting topic. And a little sad for me, as I watched the Classical Era begin to disintegrate before my very eyes in the history books. I was torn: it seemed to coincide with the demise of the aristocracy and the new “liberty” of the coming world and, while I believed deeply into the concept of liberty, I also felt some grief for the beginning of the demise of Classical Music. A real conundrum.

Bookmarking. This is a good article.

Cheers.

[SeeSharp]

I have also heard it argued that realistic art was killed off for half a century precisely because of the appreciation Hitler and Stalin had for it. That is why, so the argument goes, we have had to put up with dots and smears masquerading as art for so long.

[sneakers]

We don’t have a large collection of classical cd’s, but classical music is mr sneakers and my music of choice, along with Latin Mass music (Tallis, Palestrina, etc)

[SeeSharp]

Classical music is alive and well and finds new audiences...

You are right about new audiences for the old great composers, but where are the new great composers?

[mylife]

Classical forms in modern music

Impressioni di Settembre

1972

[SeeSharp]

If the record companies don’t figure out a way to make money in the age of Internet file sharing, a return to music supported by patronage may be in our future.

[Spktyr]

Oddly, they’re in Hollywood and Japan, composing film scores (because the stupid elitists won’t accept any “new” classical-styled music).

Check out Eguchi Takahito’s work from the Trinity Blood soundtrack... or the Full Metal Alchemist soundtracks (all three of them).

Or Danny Elfman’s “Music For A Darkened Theatre” series.

[mylife]

Well, as Bach Himself said...”Show me the money, then I will compose” L0L

[HoosierHawk]

Thanks, I'll have to read it later.

On an unrelated note, did you see this earlier today?

[Alouette]

Hmm, what about Hollywood movie scores?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Well, today everyone wants to be a star. Who wants to play someone else’s music? My sister plays classical flute beautifully. But if there’s not a sheet of music in front of her, she’s musically mute!
Interesting!

[chilepepper]

I also call BS.

Classical music was simply the best music that could be written in its day, being an exercise in the management of the sound assets offered by an orchestra made up individual artists using very specialised instruments.

Make no mistake: if Mozart is reincarnate amongst us, he is using Cakewalk and synthesizers.

As a metaphor, consider the Amish - they claim to not want to use "modern technology", yet the technology they use was quite modern only a few hundred years ago, so the Amish aren't against "modern technology" per-se or they wouldn't be using the modern plow, horse harnesses, grain mills, etc.

[Spktyr]

Oh, they can make money. It’s called the iTunes Music Store.

It’s just that they can’t make those obscene profit margins any more...

[Alouette]

where are the new great composers?

Howard Shore, John Williams?

[Spktyr]

See Paul Oakenfold’s work for a *great* example of this.