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Re: support for classical music

Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2013-12-02 08:17

My favourite book dealing with the subject of 'classical' music and it's apparent decline is Henry Pleasants "The Agony of Modern Music" (1955)
It's a rather polemical attack on modern composers who insist in continuing to write 'Classical ' music , as in 'Serious' music, whilst not realising that they don't really have an audience of enthusiastic listeners who'd support them. But they keep right on composing this "Serious' music all the while putting out their hand for grants to support their careers in musical composition because they cannot support themselves with their music.
Some however have realised that they don't have a genuine audience , and direct their efforts at earning a real living as a real composer by composing film scores, some of which are really quite brilliant.
At the end of his book , Henry Pleasants states that "Jazz is modern music and nothing else is".
Well, I think he was drawing a very 'long bow' there , or perhaps it was just a bit of a stir. Whatever he meant by that statement, I still consider his book an excellent read and close to the uncomfortable truth on this subject.

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