Posted on 03/18/2015 11:10:35 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Will classical music disappear?
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Elevator? Aren’t they the domain of “smooth jazz” these days?
It will if no one fights against it.
Every day we delay makes defeat more probable.
Most of it sounds like Romantic era to me, focused on single emotional themes rather than complex tunes.
Every Classical station I listen to is listener supported, even KING FM, which used to be commercial. And they’re all available on iHeart.
That’s prehistoric rock. 80’s and 90’s is classical rock.
You know you’re old when they are playing your kids’ music on the oldies stations.
Every era produces a lot of garbage and a few timeless "classics", and ours is no different. But in a day when halfway creative people can generate pretty good finished products by themselves on an iPad, it isn't surprising that music requiring the complex coordination of several dozen musicians and their acoustic instruments is losing popularity.
I recall the ending of Jean Raspail's novel Camp of the Saints when western civilization was on the verge of being toppled by a third world hoard and the radio stations kept playing Mozart's Requiem.
Sanctus (Charles Gounod, 1854)--orchestra and chorus, Bupyeong Methodist Church, Inchon, South Korea
Most contemporary “classic music” just does not appeal to me. Too often it just sounds like a film soundtrack.
I guess I just like the stuff that was written to commemorate great battles, coronations, and religious ceremony.
I can listen to Bach Cantatas for hours. Too much of the new stuff is trying to be too poppy(?) for me.
Some here of a certain age may recall the 1967 movie "Elvira Madigan," a somewhat pretentious Swedish art film that became a huge, and unexpected hit here in the US. The entire score was of Mozart's music..I think one of his piano concertos, and the album also became a bit hit..people who had no idea who/what Mozart was loved the score..
I think the cassette, later the CD, marked the beginning of the end for classical music. In the 60's you could go into an record store, and they'd have hundreds, if not thousands of classical vinyl. At one time I had nearly 200 of the DGG albums. The math of the music industry today makes that impossible.
Across the country, lots of symphony orchestras are struggling, if not already died off. If they could find a way to lower prices, and attract a younger crowd..you might revive interest.
In that case, what I listen to is precambrian rock.
You list the strains of Melkor. Why don’t you channel a different spirit?
All because of the communist invasion into our schools.
No music allowed under strict Sharia law. There is no music in hell either. Just weeping and gnashing of teeth. Probably screams of agony, too.
Not as long as Hollywood keeps making movies.
Remember her name? Hopefully she produced some of her own stuff. Come to think of it, maybe we aren’t googling with the right keywords.
Hmm. Reminds me of that scene in Band of Brothers, where a group of the 101st Airborne guys are up in a damaged building, watching the old German men cleaning up the bombing rubble and neatly stacking bricks - while a string quartet plays Beethoven.
Mental note: Opus 131, String Quartet in C Sharp. Perfect for the aftermath of battle.
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