In Reply to: Cycles posted by layman on April 5, 2007 at 06:34:31:
Unfortunately, the patrons of modern "serious" music are the faculty committee members who appoint new faculty members and promote the old. If modern music seems unapproachably abstruse to a majority of educated people today, look to its patrons for the answer. The refinement encouraged by yesteryear's aristocracy has little resemblance to the refinements engendered by modern academia.
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- "Visiting many college campuses..." - Paul_A 17:17:52 04/05/07 (9)
- Re: "Visiting many college campuses..." - layman 09:02:52 04/06/07 (8)
- Re: "Visiting many college campuses..." - Paul_A 11:13:26 04/06/07 (2)
- Concerts - layman 11:36:43 04/06/07 (1)
- Yes, but their "educated music lovers" were REALLY, REALLY RICH!:-)... - SE 12:29:07 04/06/07 (0)
- What is clear, is that new Classical compositions... - SE 09:56:25 04/06/07 (4)
- new Classical compositions... - layman 11:03:20 04/06/07 (3)
- The "learning" just isn't there... - SE 12:27:06 04/06/07 (2)
- Take cover...the sky is falling! nt - layman 12:36:30 04/06/07 (1)
- Maybe it is. No...seriously. Not that it can be stopped. n/t - SE 13:00:49 04/06/07 (0)