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In Reply to: RE: I used to feel EXACTLY the OPPOSITE of the way I do now... posted by peppy m. on April 21, 2021 at 09:12:07
The simple truth is that most "average" classical music listeners have been burned by exposure to the music of the Second Vienna School and the post-Webern serialists. Despite academics and critics telling them how "good" this music was, it set most classical listeners against "modern music" even when serial music reached its inevitable dead end. And the inertial opposition to "modern music" still persists even though later modern composers at the end of the twentieth century (minimalists, etc.) began to write in a less audience-hostile way. At least that's the way I see it.
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All down hill from Adams' Harmonielehre, (sp). Rapturous applause when I heard it live at Davies. I like some of Ingram Marshall's music.
I may have to try Glass again, after hearing the Olafsson's Glassworks.
Higdon, Theofanidis, and Bates, that new young guy who mixes "beats" with orchestra, can't remember his damn name. I listened in vain to his Violin concerto which was coupled with Meyer's Barber VC.
I need to investigate Solonen's music.
I can't think of any other tonal superstars off the top of my head.
Speaking of the composer Meyer I do like his "down home" music.
I know of some the modern composers you mention. Not all modern composers are uninteresting to me but most of the ones that are don't often sound very "modern".There is a certain way of uniting sounds and musical phrases that escapes our modern minds. This mysterious way of composing music was once the hallmark of the best old classical composers. This mysterious way seemed to better take into account the totality of life experience at the same time that it was able to speak of individualistic concerns.
I cannot adequately define exactly what this "way" is (sorry!), yet I can clearly sense it in the works of the older classicists. I am trying to identify the major characteristics of this "way" in an adequate fashion but so far I have failed in doing so. Perhaps it is all hidden from plain view, for some strange reason...
But all too often the feeling for doing things this "way" seems to escape our modern minds.
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Though there are other branches I've likely forgotten about at the moment. Is Solonen post-Lutoslawskian?I forgot late Rautavaara, very colorful and imaginative.
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I forget - did you also mention the "holy minimalists" like Part? Some of those works can be pretty good too.
I frequent r/classical where many young composers post their latest creations, either on piano, synthesized orchestra or full orchestra or chamber/trio, etc.
Below is one of the few pieces that I've actually listened to more than once:
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