XM came with the car... the only reasons i keep it are 110, 111 and 112
Posted on 05/04/2008 6:35:19 PM PDT by forkinsocket
L0L!
The new great composers are writing movie soundtracks.
Vaughn Williams was fantastic and composed in this age
Danny Elfman, Ooshima Michiru, Eguchi Takahito, Klaus Badelt, Hans Zimmer....
While I consider the Tenor Solo of Beethoven's 9th the pinnacle of western music - music changes, and it's hard to turn away from brilliance in any form.
Alot of the people who used to carry the banner for classical music are moving on.
XM came with the car... the only reasons i keep it are 110, 111 and 112
Elfman is a fine composer
The local classical music radiostation here, the one and only, down from two 20 years ago, won't even play complete pieces, symphonies or concertoes, only short movements, that as often as not are associated with some trashy movie melodramas. Here is the theme from the Julia Roberts movie, the announcer will say. Groovy!
That said, I'm afraid that Cakewalk/synthetizer QWERTY keyboard virtuosos of "techno" and "house music" are no Mozarts of the day.
Would this be of interest to your classical music ping list?
SeeSharp: You are right about new audiences for the old great composers, but where are the new great composers?
mylife:Well, as Bach Himself said...”Show me the money, then I will compose” L0L
This exchange is superb.
Nothing like Baroque in the morning. Classical music is great and its still heard and appreciated by bunches. But to call it, “serious music,” is not going to enhance its dissemination to the masses of cd-buyers.
No, they are moralizing and attempting to make a beautiful thing ugly by association. It's about the height of their artistic talent.
Loved Elfman’s songs for “Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.”
I have alway thought the violin should have had a premier spot in Rock rather than synthesizers. but the truth is that it is difficult to pay 50 people for textures and it is easier to pay 4 or five using modern instruments.
Is it the same? No
Is it based on the same aural ideas? Yes
Its just basic finance
Elfman is very talented
Most of the time.
To heck with the record companies. My sister, a classically trained mezzo soprano with several world tours under her belt as well as a stint as 'Tituba' in The Crucible at the Kennedy Center, has put out her own album and made it available on the digital music sites. She has had some sales of the CD, but gets downloads of her music all the time. She is paid royalties for the downloads. People use MP3 players; they want to quickly download what they want rather than buy the CD and copy it over to their player.
It's not just file sharing that's an issue; it's how the music is packaged (Granted, there may be less choice with a classical piece such as an opera than deciding which songs to put on a rock or country CD) People will pay for what they want. The record companies still haven't figured it out.
Some of it has to do with Fads. Mozart faced that. Puccini faced that.
There is still good music to be found that is based in classical comosition
*** XM came with the car... the only reasons i keep it are 110, 111 and 112 ***
Is that the same channels as DTV uses for it’s XM music? I love it!
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