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RE: Bizarre twist in musical taste (long)

"Why don't we have our own Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven? Surely, a society that is more technologically advanced, better educated, richer, and has more people in it should be able to produce better music than 18th-century Germany? And yet nothing we create today -- either in the popular realm or the conservatory -- holds a candle to it."

Perhaps we will come back around to it someday. I cannot pretend to answer that particular observation. I can only make some obtuse guesses as to why the music culture is where it is. The conservatories are in the hands of the wrong people? Perhaps instead of living in front of a keyboard dreaming about compositions they're distracted greatly by the 256 million voicings they have to draw from a really cool synthesizer? Or, far worse, todays Mozart is addicted to on-line gaming or trolling audio forums. How's that for obtuse? : )

I would think that it has more to do with the music wanting to change. We just can't do the same thing over and over again. Each generation has a need to differentiate itself from what has come before. To seek its own identity. And I think this is accelerating in the modern era. If we are smarter than our forfathers it has a lot with what they have already figured out for us.


Edits: 07/04/12
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