In Reply to: RE: Funny post from the rec.music.classical.recordings newsgroup posted by Amphissa on March 1, 2015 at 12:03:11:
The modernists had a huge impact on American popular culture in the mid-20th century, for example with Disney's memorable 1940 animated feature Fantasia, which prominently featured Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. John Williams famously used elements from the Sacrificial Dance of the Rite of Spring in the main theme in his score for the 1975 movie Jaws. America's leading modernist Aaron Copland also had a major impact. And modernism may have had an even greater overall impact in Europe.
But modernism is old news at this point. It was overtaken long ago by minimalism, which itself has had a major impact on popular culture, including in movies, television shows and even commercials.
Of course, these aesthetic movements encompassed much more than music.
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- Interesting. I would say exactly the opposite. - rbolaw 14:18:35 03/01/15 (8)
- RE: Interesting. I would say exactly the opposite. - learsfool 20:05:18 03/04/15 (0)
- RE: Interesting. - Amphissa 17:01:52 03/01/15 (6)
- RE: Interesting. - rbolaw 18:15:17 03/01/15 (5)
- RE: Interesting. - Amphissa 22:48:50 03/01/15 (4)
- Modernist composers - Chris from Lafayette 10:24:38 03/02/15 (2)
- Smart kids. I guess ... - rbolaw 14:34:24 03/02/15 (1)
- Yes - the younger one became a piano major at Northwestern [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 15:10:48 03/02/15 (0)
- RE: Interesting. - rbolaw 07:34:17 03/02/15 (0)