what about classical music ?

[wishtoscotland]

hello reader ,i wanted to say that we actually forget to give more care to the classical music which is taking its way to vanish maybe in few decades or more , cos most of us are following only rock ,metal ,hard metal ...etc and i dont know what will come next maybe stone and wood music ,although clasical music is not from my culture but i am fond of ,and when i was in my country i arranged some classical evenings to listen with some groups and describe our emotions and discuss the techniques made by the musician if its solo which made in ( concertos )as an example ,infact i got some information from net and expose to them to introduce them to this kind of music ,and we had nice times .any comments????

[Monco]

Originally posted by wishtoscotland
hello reader ,i wanted to say that we actually forget to give more care to the classical music which is taking its way to vanish maybe in few decades or more , cos most of us are following only rock ,metal ,hard metal ...etc and i dont know what will come next maybe stone and wood music

I think the Avant-gardists have probably already done wood and stone music, though can anybody top John Cage’s 4'33" ?

I don’t share your pessimism wishtoscotland, the high arts will always have a place in Western cultural life, you only need a music playing machine of some sort to enjoy them. As a teenager I was a fan of rock and heavy metal (I don’t keep up with new musical terminology anymore so what ‘hard metal’ is I don’t know), but I also listened to Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Berlioz, Prokoviev and Bach as well as listening to classical guitarists like Segovia, Bream and Williams (as it was always nice to hear a guitar played properly). Indeed in my favourite guitar player is the peerless Django Reinhardt who played a hybrid of American Jazz and European Gypsy music.

It is true that in Scotland the governing Neanderthals (aka the Labour party) who run things have had a cultural bypass and are therefore hostile to high culture, but really there is nothing they can do to stop you enjoying it (though they probably wish there was).

[SineWave]

Classical music will never be forgotten, as long as there is IL DIVO.

[wishtoscotland]

dear i am pessimistic but i hope that all bad music die and vanish with their fans , in fact these falling styles was founded by the people who have no merits and talentsbut they were well marketed ,as a mockery now they claim they are artists,is there a difference between one has spent 15 years studying an instrument and art profoundly , and one yesterday was a tramp and today is an artist ,do u think that there is a big difference .superior and infreior right ? so i dont give care to these kinds cos they dont deserve this at all .on the contrary they desrve a salp,cos they are deteriorating our taste of art.
this is my opinion .

[wanderingmutt]

wishtoscotland---Indeed, there is some bad stuff out there, but it is not really the duty of any one individual to decide for the masses, is my opinion. Some of those people you don't deem as artists went from tramp to artist status because they worked their laurels to get where they are now. I personally am similar to Monco. I listen to a little bit of everything . . . except most rap. I collect, however, traditional Scottish, Irish and some English, classical/baroque, New Age, and whatever other foreign types catch my eye(pan-nordic, Australian, Indian, and the Andes to be specific, so far). Finally, while I may not especially dote on pop/rock/metal artists(w/ exception to Metallica and no other), I can't say they don't deserve what they have, because I wasn't there when they were busting their butts to get where they wanted to go. Besides, they're human, afterall, and not perfect. And so are you.