Classical music's twentieth-century tragedy

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

[mylife]

Its classic call and response.

[mylife]

42 Million views

[jammer]

I agree with every word you say except the first sentence. Is that true? I was under the impression that classical CD sales were holding their own much better than the other genres.

Oh, in answer to others' speculation about what went "wrong", I think it was the 12-tone scale. Many compositions require the elite of the elite, of which I am not one, to enjoy--or to say that one enjoys.

[fr_freak]

42 Million views

That's because the guy is awesome. Every time I watch that video, it inspires me to go practice.

[mylife]

Amazing too, that tune had never been heard by the public, it was only played in private my Italian monks and that inadvertent bombing of a monastery in WWII brought this music to the world after sifting through the rubble..this work was found..and we see its popularity today

Classical is far from dead

[devolve]

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I can crack the glass windows 50 miles away!

CH-848 - Opera - (Berlioz on now)

[mylife]

He buggers it up in spots, but its just a great tune. And he modernizes it for a new audience.

[Stepan12]

My old piano teacher (super virtuoso Ted Pierce of blessed memory) said that before WWI practically everyone in Germany could play piano and read solfeigge (sp). The two World Wars changed that for the worser, also.

[potlatch]

You will crack your own first, or be asked to move, lol.

[Borges]

Mozart wrote both popular music and ‘serious’ music for connoisseurs. There's no reason to assume he would write nothing but pop tunes today.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

True - and call and response to boot!

[Borges]

Serious Music = Music where the notated score transcends any single performance.

[Borges]

Ross is exactly right. After the world wars, Classical Music came to seem slightly sinister in American pop culture. You could say the top 10 composers of all time were German.

[mylife]

You mean to tell me a Zeppelin tune is based in Classical music? ;)

[Borges]

Classical music radio stations play less than 10% of the music that has been written over the centuries.

[HungarianGypsy]

that is the second best version of Kashmir I know. The first is done by the same orchestra (London Philharmonic), but has more strings than his piano version.

[mylife]

Its a beautiful illustration stating Classic far from dead

Rajaz

[Chode]

don't know sir... 110 is Classical all kinds, 111 is VOX which is voice and Opera then theres 112 which is Classic-POPS

i mostly listen to 110 going to and from work as well as at home on the web, i love it also.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

War is Hell on Classical Music ping.

[Spktyr]

Still, according to Sturgeon’s Law, 90% of that must be crap, right? :P