Classical music may continue to be performed for another 250 years, but it is surely as doomed as our very civilization. It's only a matter of time before what we thought was great is unknown to the world; and only another interval, before it's lost to history. Oh well, it was a nice run.
Here the last is first, but the list should be familiar no matter which point you emphasize. The future is now:
Full frontal attack on Western civilization. Only a war will stop it, because the left is too deeply entrenched.
“Classical Music Will Disappear.
Will classical music disappear?”
That...reminded me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE25wHQPHIE
The elected officials are rising up in their disgust and intend to throw out the ELECTORATE.
They mean to replace us.
Haha no.
There is so much baroque/classical/romantic music available on YouTube, it makes modern music seem almost nonexistent.
What we won’t hear is a lot of the “electronic noise” (quote from John Lennon) that the airwaves are surcharged with.
Just because Satan’s influence is getting stronger and stronger does not mean he’s headed for a victory.
Not while I'm still breathing, but I'm 64 and don't know how long I have...
FMCDH(BITS)
I was watching a youtube video of a Fourth of July celebration at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. The employees were all dressed in 1700s clothing. An employee read aloud the Declaration of Independence. The Mormon Tabernacle choir were guests and sang “Yankee Doodle” while the tourists sang along. As the camera panned through the tourists, I noticed each and every one of them was white. The only black person in the video was one of the costumed employees. And I got to thinking, how long will places like Williamsburg continue to exist? It’s mainly white people who visit such places, white patriots who care about American history and the Founding Fathers. As their numbers dwindle, nobody will care anymore and such places will not have enough visitors to stay afloat.
I had the same thought during a recent visit to Knott’s Berry Farm in California. They have a reproduction of Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell there and a dramatization of the writing of the Declaration of Independence. On a busy weekend, my friend and I were the only visitors at the attraction. How long before they tear it down?
Everything we value is going to disappear. It seems inevitable at this point. It’s a tragedy.
Of course not! There’s plenty of popular Classical music still around. Classic Rock, Classic Country...
Dennis Prager has stated many times the best new Classical music today are movie soundtracks. You still can hear music composed for movies as if Schoenberg never lived with melody, harmony, and embracing the full spectrum of human emotions. As long as current composers outside the movies still are composing atonal and 12 tone pieces the public will not give a damn.
“It’s only a matter of time before what we thought was great is unknown to the world; and only another interval, before it’s lost to history.”
No, even if Western Civilization goes down the drain, classical music will still be preserved, because the Asians appreciate it and will perpetuate it.
Not so long as colleges and universities continue to operate low-power FM radio stations.
Ahh Bach!
One of the interesting things is the fact that new avenues for enjoying music have opened up. Top 40 rock, country, “easy listening”, what-have-you, are drek and have almost always been drek. But you aren’t limited to the handful of stations on your AM/FM. Satellite radio has dozens more, each dedicated to a genre, your cable provider does the same, and a lot of the artists you hear there you will never hear on your AM/FM dial.
Then there is you-tube where a lot of music is archived.
And Pandora Radio, which beams an endless line of artists right into my ears many of whom I would never have heard of otherwise.
And based on those sources I can go and find still others, which I down-load to my Kindle and carry with me. I can go days listening to stuff you’ll never hear on the radio, stuff I really like, and never hear the same song twice.
So, yes, the general level of culture of the average yahoo is low and going lower. But I suspect that has always been true; the answer there isn’t more culture but a spiritual reawakening, rebirth, salvation. Only God can fix what ails us. But God can fix what ails us.
Every Classical station I listen to is listener supported, even KING FM, which used to be commercial. And they’re all available on iHeart.
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.
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.