Classical music's twentieth-century tragedy

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

[potlatch]

Of possible interest!

[Revolting cat!]

And it did in certain periods, like the early sixties Nashville recordings,like Elton John's early work, Paul Buckmaster arranging, the Rolling Stones Moonlight Mile plus a couple of others, and the Philadelphia Sound of the 1970s - Thom Bell's productions of the Spinners and Harol Melvin, with Philly Symphony players doing the sessions.

[mylife]

I heard a Tx High School Chorus singing this...today on the radio

Classical music is not dead

[mylife]

And it was delightful!

[EverOnward]

bump for reference -

[mylife]

Almost 5 million views on youtube and classical is dead?

[Publius]

Richard Wagner ping.

[rod1]

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.

[chilepepper]

I'm afraid that Cakewalk/synthetizer QWERTY keyboard virtuosos of "techno" and "house music" are no Mozarts of the day.

What makes you think only those who generate "techno" and "house music" use Cakewalk and synthesizers? You must not know how many different varieties of modern music exist, nor how it is made...

[HungarianGypsy]

he doesn’t consider himself classical, but this fellow has a classical sound: http://www.william-joseph.com

[Spktyr]

Think so?

Then you need to check THIS out:

http://kotaku.com/gaming/bungie/corporeal-performs-halo-in-studio-222825.php

The kid with the electric violin is now in Julliard.

The music? Yeah, that’s “popular” music from the video game Halo. Modern classical music, adapted for “rock” instruments... which the classical stations won’t play. They won’t even play the original which was performed by a full orchestra.

[Biblebelter]

Classical music is more alive than literature. The beauty of music is, that you do not have to be literate to appreciate it. The rotten public school system and its high dropout rate, with declining literacy, with cultural dumbing down, and with interactive media lowering attention span, have made well read young people go the way of the dodo bird.

[Revolting cat!]

And it was delightful!

Absolutely. I can't think of any better use of violins in popular music than the Philadelphia Sound and Paul Buckmaster. Or come to think of it, the uncredited string arrangements on Roy Orbison's records.

I know a violin player in Europe who plays with an alt-country group there, a kind of bluegrassy sound, so we'd call her a "fiddle player". But having been classically trained, unlike most of our country and bluegrass fiddle players here, she does amazing things, that unfortunately are not fully appreciated there. She'd be a session player hit if she moved to Nashville.

[mylife]

Love it!

[mylife]

alt-country group there, a kind of bluegrassy sound,

"New Grass"?

[Spktyr]

Let me know when your classical music station plays the Truth And Reconciliation Suite composed by O’Donnell and Salvatori.

Until they do, they (and you) are still elitist snobs.

I could resurrect Beethoven at the prime of his talents, have him write something completely new and different, have the LA Philharmonic perform it and it’d get NO airplay on classical stations. And traditional classical enthusiasts would decry it as “not true classical music.”

[Publius]

Check out Patrick Zimmerli. I helped commission his two trios for piano, violin and cello for the Seattle Chamber Music Society.

[devolve]

.

Optimum Digital:

CH-813 - Classic Rock (Neil Young on now)

CH-828 - Solid Gold Oldies (Frankie Valli on now)

CH-841 - Light Classical (Bach on now)

CH-840 - Classical Masterpieces (Stravinsky on now)

[Revolting cat!]

Well, they're European, they don't know what to call it. I suggested some (American genre) names to them, but nothing has helped as far as gaining wider acceptance outside the country genre. They've done an U2 cover and a Doors cover as well, but mostly country, let's say punk-country. Latest lyric fragment which scandalized a little their older producer, and my buddy (translated by me):

A woman has her cycle
I have a motorcycle

[potlatch]

Too bad you don’t have 4 ears to plug each of them into - multimusic tasking!