[CharlesOConnell]

Who would care, the descendants of Thos. Jefferson and the other 18th century American illuminati? Our society is at an end stage. Calculated injustice; the oldest Marxist trick, no less relevent because it's in its sexual rather than economic phase.

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:

1. The creation of racism offences.
2. Continual change to create confusion
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
4. The undermining of schools' and teachers' authority
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6. The promotion of excessive drinking
7. Emptying of churches
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
10. Control and dumbing down of media
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family

[cornelis]

You list the strains of Melkor. Why don’t you channel a different spirit?

[huldah1776]

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.

[RinaseaofDs]

Not as long as Hollywood keeps making movies.

[marsh2]

You have to recognize that modern classical music can be found in movie scores. Some of them are quite dramatic and lovely. http://www.hans-zimmer.com/index.php?rub=discography&bt=2&numid=1 It is alive and well and the new composers are every bit as talented as the old !

[plain talk]

Classical music will last forever. It may not be performed by symphonys in the future but the music will survive. It’s indie, rap, disco and other disposable music that will be easily forgotten.

[YogicCowboy]

It may virtually disappear here, but Boogieman is correct: some Asian cultures (e.g., Japan, South Korea) will perpetuate it, for they appreciate it as fewer and fewer in the West still do.

[Poison Pill]

Lots of Classical music is being written today. It’s all for movie soundtracks.

[familyop]

Don't know what you're talking about, so here's a... "Punk Accordion Player and some nuns."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0P0EvJOfRQ

[Fester Chugabrew]

I’m already mourning the loss of elevator music. Classical will not go away. It may change, as when Stravinsky came aboard, but it will not die.

[x]

Like Christianity, classical music is being picked up by developing countries (Africa for religion, Asia for music) as it dies in its core areas (Europe, Middle East).

Western classical music is a status symbol in the rising economies of China, Korea, and other Asian nations.

As with poetry, there will be new classical music so long as colleges and foundations and governments subsidize it.

What will happen once the funding stops, though?

As for the older, established classical masters, there still is something of a market, isn't there?

"Light classical music" competes pretty well with oldies, easy listening, and "light jazz" for older listeners.

None of that is going away any time soon, however feeble original composition of classical, jazz, rock, or pop becomes.

[Chickensoup]

I think I understand that the general perspective on Western classical music is : Thank God for the Asians. They are our future Western classical musicians.

Few Americans or Europeans work that hard.

[TXnMA]

12. cRAP "music"...