In Reply to: RE: Bizarre twist in musical taste (long) posted by Emsquare on July 3, 2012 at 18:00:08:
I'm not sure we *could* improvise with that level of skill. I mean, improvising a six-part fugue? Of course, Bach was the only person who could do that. But classical has become an ever-deader, more ossified tradition. I'm less worried about the improvisation and sometimes too pedantic performances about the fact that we aren't writing great music anymore. In 1922, one could hear a new opera by Puccini. Now what? After years during which those who wanted to be known as "serious" composers had to write music that drove half the audience screaming from the hall, new music has lost its purpose and its drive.
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