jim204674 posts10-08-2021 8:40amI think Western Classical music is falling in on itself and being dumbed down day by day. Every time I hear New Music I despair, Discordant, single lines with no harmony attached, written from a keyboard attached to a computer and then it goes through the Sibelius program to sort out themes and harmony then. The whole thing is bereft of any soul and then has to be played by orchestras who hate every note but who won't get funding if they don't play it.
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Hard for me to follow up on this bullseye comment.
It never occured to me, to investigate other 21st C composers, , not after my discovery of
Pettersson, Schnittke, Elliott Carter and last but not least Hans Henze.
What all began with Correli, Vivaldi, Bach , has, like all good and great things, now have come to its finale.
What a genre of muisc. From Bach to Mozart (can I skip over my least fav composer Beethoven, when in fact I HATE all his **music * with a passion,,)
Then on to Puccini, Wagner, Debussy many others, and the finale to this magnificient art form, with the 4 previous mentioned composers.
But I must say, what a finale, what a fireworks show at the end.
If Correli , Vivaldi and Bach could could hear what musical works, that Schnittke, Pettersson, Henze and Carter has accomplished, they would be in shock of when they began and to where these 4 giants have ended this art form.
Modern day composers, what is their inspiration??
This i would have to know.
Undoubtable , what they find as motivations to score, is nothing I am in the least bit interested. So like yeah, outside those 4 finalers of the tradition, , I have no interest in anything *modern*.
No thanks.
