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Posted on 08/01/2017 4:06:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
“Classical music is a dying genre...”
When the leftists achieve their secular theocracy you will be *required* to attend that which they deem important.
Herbert von Karajan
I am willing to take a chance and listen to new bands. As for avant-garde music I love Zappa and am willing to listen to something unusual. The fact of the matter is, there aren't many outlets for that product outside of college radio. The other fact is, there is a LOT of bad music out there.
If we froze symphonic music in 1910, we'd have missed the Rite of Spring - which is an AWESOME piece. Thus, I want my Stravinsky AND new Wagner. Nonetheless, as this excellent Slate article documents, classical music is in a death spiral. Liberal purges will only accelerate the process.
Oh, and semi-conductor....
One flaw in Prager’s argument: He’s not a conservative.
generally it takes a couple of posts to get to the stupid stuff...not this time...
Proof is in watching and listening to Prager when he appears on other shows or networks apart from Fox (e.g. Meet the Press). Then he moderates his positions to stay in their good graces and be invited back. Give me a talking head who says the same thing, no matter the circumstances. Sorry flamers, you’re wrong.
In my humble opinion, good, if not great orchestral music is entering a golden age due to the ability of just about anybody who has the desire to make classical style orchestral music thanks to having access to the necessary tools of music production via the PC. I myself have whole sampled orchestras at my disposal along with the ability to write musical scores that these samplers can play and record and mix my work on a very capable multitrack digital recording studio.
In the past only a small percentage of musicians were able to take advantage of such a wealth of technologies due to the extremely high cost of studio time and access. Few musicians who were not stars had home studios.
Classical music also requires a massive investment of time and effort to become proficient enough to play as a professional and the job openings are minuscule compared to other genres. Additionally, classical music stations on the radio have always been rare so a small proportion of the population was exposed to it.
Conversely, popular music is everywhere on the radio and it didn't take much to get experience playing in a garage band or a local bar, the end result being that a large percentage of folks with musical talent wound up going down a different path than the classically trained musician.
Over the last decades classical music has split into the modern experimental form but the more melodic branch which borrows heavily from the romantic era has morphed into orchestral music, a musical form using traditional instruments in pieces that depart from traditional structure, short pieces that typically run from four to ten or so minutes long as well as film music. In fact I think you will find that yesterday's great composers have become today's film soundtrack composers, John Williams and Hans Zimmer amongst others.
In addition, the ability to express oneself through the home studio allows total amateurs to try their hand at composition, and, I myself have managed to produce some listenable orchestral snippets. Youtube has become the distribution channel for the amateur composer and allowed many amateurs to monetize their work.
Google Epic Orchestral music and you will find a wealth of talent on Youtube.
“Then he moderates his positions to stay in their good graces and be invited back”
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, got called on it, and now you are just flailing about making up stuff.
What’s a matter, Dennis not take your call once and you still aren’t over it??
Ouch, ouch, zing!
I’m listening to Dennis right now. He hopes to have as a show guest today, one of the people who want him banned from the orchestra.
Dennis is talking to Andrew Apter right now.
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