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To: Fiji Hill
Is any good classical music even being composed today? It seems the world has been without a first-rate classical composer since Igor Stravinsky died in 1971.

That is the main and unfortunate reason why classical music is fading - classical compositions worth listening to are museum pieces from centuries past. Most contemporary "classical" music is the sound equivalent of abstract expressionist art: a collection of gimmicks like rolling dice to pick notes or playing the same note or chord over and over again for hundreds of measures.

87 posted on 03/09/2017 1:51:26 PM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck
Most contemporary "classical" music is the sound equivalent of abstract expressionist art...

So true. I have heard some that sounded like an orchestra tuning up with a lot of intentional dissonance and then somebody played the sound of a trash can full of glass and silverware tumbling down a staircase. Music deconstructed and destroyed. What's even worse, somebody convinced an orchestra to "play" it.

88 posted on 03/09/2017 2:01:48 PM PST by DeFault User
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