XM came with the car... the only reasons i keep it are 110, 111 and 112Related “ping” to you. :)
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The Pope happens to prefer classical music.
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
Bookmarking. This is a good article.
Cheers.
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.
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)
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Hmm, what about Hollywood movie scores?
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.
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 112The 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?
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.
Of possible interest!
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I have a 1947 published book “Dictionary of Opera” that flatly states that Handel operas are so musically and theatrically archaic that they will never be seen again by modern audiences.
Wrongo. Performances of Handel operas have skyrocketed worldwide between about 1990 and the present.
he doesn’t consider himself classical, but this fellow has a classical sound: http://www.william-joseph.com