Posted on 03/18/2015 11:10:35 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Will classical music disappear?
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“Some soundtracks actually included classical pieces.”
How many people got introduced to Rachmaninoff through the soundtracks to movies like “Somewhere in Time” or “Brief Encounter” or Wagner from “Excalibur” and the list goes on.
Nope—ever hear Islamic Music? Chinese? Japanese? African? (OK if you like drums) and Indian? You don’t hear it because it Sucks! No, Classic music will make a comeback-—Classics always do.
So much Baroque & Classical
Have you heard Carlos de Seixas, the Portuguese Scarlatti?
Yeah, I went to school with plenty of Korean kids, and a few Chinese as well. Every single one of them was taking either piano or violin lessons at an early age. I think that was the only option they had, which instrument to learn, not whether they were going to learn classical music or not.
Western classical music is a status symbol in the rising economies of China, Korea, and other Asian nations.
As with poetry, there will be new classical music so long as colleges and foundations and governments subsidize it.
What will happen once the funding stops, though?
As for the older, established classical masters, there still is something of a market, isn't there?
"Light classical music" competes pretty well with oldies, easy listening, and "light jazz" for older listeners.
None of that is going away any time soon, however feeble original composition of classical, jazz, rock, or pop becomes.
Eru Ilúvatar will get the last chord; Morgoth’s name will be forgotten.
Re:You list the strains of Melkor
It will survive and it will flourish. There is a move amongst the current generation of composers back to tonality. Beethoven and Copeland will be performed widely in concert halls alongside of people we have not yet heard of a hundred years from now, just as Sophocles and Shakespeare will continue to share the stage with who knows.
Music and the directions on how to perform it exist in so many mediums that it will always be prevalent so land as mankind dwells on Earth or in the stars. Humans are curious and attracted to beauty and look to the past for guidance and inspiration.
"Whenever there's music, the devil kicks.
He don't allow music by the river Styx."
(from Sing, You Sinners)
Yes there is, Kenny G.
I think I understand that the general perspective on Western classical music is : Thank God for the Asians. They are our future Western classical musicians.
Few Americans or Europeans work that hard.
Except for Mt. Rushmore, we could probably count the numbers of blacks we saw at those parks and monuments on one of our hands and still have some fingers left over. And we don't know if the few black people we saw were American blacks or foreign blacks.
I've read a number of statements from supposedly classical composers who've expressed their irritation at what they called "accessible" music. I guess accessible music is music the public likes. You know like Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Tchaikovsky all those cruddy composers who wrote music the public liked.
So these musical morons were admitting they only composed "music" they liked...which was frequently atonal and full of dissidence.
I’m partial to the Fugue.
You mean "Slaked."
LOL I can listen to smooth jazz. Get this though, there isn’t even evil bbbbwwwwahahaha laughing in hell. It is pure hatred and nothing, absolutely nothing good. Take your sense of humor and throw it out the door. There isn’t even any pleasure in masochism because there is no empathy. Take every thing that is wrong with us and that is what will be there.
Kenny G would be a drop of water to a person dying of thirst. Satan runs when he hears Kenny, too. LOL
The facts are like intelligence, the love for tonal music is hard-wired. The "expert" was a dope and was probably being paid to promote the new, almost exclusively atonal and dissonant new classical music.
My own feeling...modern composers are simply unable to duplicate the genius of the old composers and are trying to con people the same way abstract artists try to con the public with their junk dribblings on canvas.
That was great. Just watched a bunch of their vids. Good stuff. Thanks!
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