It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
At which point do we stop worrying about the demise of classical music and just pronounce it dead once and for all?
posted by DO at 8:26 AM
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"Classical" is a vague and mutabile word there are classic cars, classic rock'n'roll, etc. Every field of human intrest has it's classic period. Every group of enthusiasts has it's own definition.
The period in which Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven wrote corresponds to a revolutionary period of human history.
Things like the industrial revolution and the United States of America were being born.
It might be best to rename this style of music.
As far as it being dead, Music does not have a lifetime, it is like an amoeba, expanding untill it can no longer contain itself, then breaking off into new forms, leaving the old intact.
I don't care what people say.
Classical music is here to stay
Along with medieval, baroque, roccoco, romantic, and all the "neo"
forms of the above.
Frank Lives. Sinatra, Zappa, and Cesare.
Oh, I'm all for change and innovation. It's just that we live in an age when the odds are against new works getting commissioned and premiered, and I wish the criterion were merit, not celebrity.
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