Re: [microsound] Classical music is booming, contrary to the pessimism of most inthe business

[Guillaume Grenier <grenier.g@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/06/03 16:19, macrosound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx said in living color:

> I love classical music.  Always have.  It was the first music that I
> sought out on my own.  The first time I heard a modern composition I was
> very disapointed.  I wasn't honest with myself for awhile, probably a fear
> of being unsophisticated but now I can honestly say that most modern
> classical is boring, trite and lazy.  Nice to see that's changing.

"Most modern classical"... What (whom) are you referring to?

Eotvos, Ferneyhough, Glass, Gubaidulina, Knussen, Lachenmann, Lindberg,
Murail, Reich, Rihm, Rzewski, Saarihao, Sciarrino?

Berio, Boulez, Britten, Cage, Carter, Crumb, Feldman, Henry, Kagel, Ligeti,
Lutoslawski, Messiaen, Nono, Parmegiani, Penderecki, Scelsi, Schnittke,
Stockhausen, Xenakis?

Are you going further back? Bartok, Berg, Hindemith, Ives, Poulenc,
Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Satie, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Varese,
Webern?

Even further? Debussy, Faure, Janacek, Mahler, Martinu, Ravel, Sibelius,
Scriabine, Strauss, Szymanowski, Zemlinsky?

When did it start to be "boring, trite and lazy"?

And since I listen to music composed by all those mentioned above, I suppose
I have wasted countless hours of my life... Damn, if only someone would have
told me like it is before...

g.

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