tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post679702245776738186..comments2024-03-28T12:59:05.739-07:00Comments on Iron Tongue of Midnight: Music is Hard 1Lisa Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-28737765032908053192007-03-29T08:41:00.000-07:002007-03-29T08:41:00.000-07:00"Classical" music is the music of Haydn,Mozart,Bee..."Classical" music is the music of Haydn,Mozart,Beethoven et al<BR/>"Popular music" is music that people like to listen to.<BR/>"Classical" is classical because it has been popular for a long time.<BR/>Some since the renaissance.<BR/>Some "Classical" music was written in the 19th and 20th centuries. <BR/>Therefore it is not classical "Classical"<BR/>What needs to be done, besides coming up with a usable definition and name for the stuff, is to support modern composers by playing thier work.<BR/>"Good" (yuk)or "Art" (ech) music becomes "Popular" by withstanding a Darwinistic "test of time" <BR/><BR/>Or something like thatLane Savanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08678485361119088480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-91338642164652748622007-03-09T11:53:00.000-08:002007-03-09T11:53:00.000-08:00Part of the problem is that most classical music i...Part of the problem is that most classical music in America plays to large halls. You can't get a good, growing body of new music if you don't have smaller venues where that stuff is tried out.<BR/><BR/>When you only have big orchestras playing Top 100 works, then they make money but kill the overall scene.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-72403698409174142392007-03-09T09:03:00.000-08:002007-03-09T09:03:00.000-08:00Steve, I don't have a plan, but Drew McManus and (...Steve, I don't have a plan, but Drew McManus and (cover your ears, ACD) Greg Sandow have plenty of good ideas. A couple of other things: the cellist Matt Haimovitz is having success playing in small clubs; locally, the Freight & Salvage folk music theater has started to have chamber music concerts, with a narrator of sorts, on a monthly basis. That'll be interesting to watch, though I've heard that the narrator is annoying.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-47959909935459506572007-03-08T07:21:00.000-08:002007-03-08T07:21:00.000-08:00Do you have a plan for achieving the second bullet...Do you have a plan for achieving the second bullet?<BR/><BR/>I don't know that our music can or even needs to be "popular" again. I'm not even sure what that means, actually.<BR/><BR/>But I do know that concert music needs to and should occupy more intellectual space than it does today.<BR/><BR/>If nothing else, we are the counterculture, and we should learn how to exploit that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12939881701345686354noreply@blogger.com