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2018 Apr 3, 4:45am
HeadSet
2018 Apr 3, 4:45am
Which compositions, if any, will still be performed a century from now?
For the rich full orchestral music, those London Philharmonic scores for movies like Star Wars.
For a more lively fare, 40s music like "Sing Sing Sing" and "In the Mood"
For lighter more lyrical music, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."
For the rich full orchestral music, those London Philharmonic scores for movies like Star Wars.
For a more lively fare, 40s music like "Sing Sing Sing" and "In the Mood"
For lighter more lyrical music, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."
Evidently it’s not hard to collapse a civilization. It’s done from within, gradually, where amazingly, it is not generally perceived as the decay envelops.
Art has been said to be the augury of civilization. If that’s right, it’s not hard to appraise our civilization’s health. Modern visual arts have gone from having become disturbing about a century ago to now being merely silly or irreverent. The only relevance now of such “art” is serving as a harbinger of our decline.
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection”, said Michelangelo. If that’s right, where are the true works of art today? And what is our perception of the Divine?
Listen to any fine arts radio station for a day. Most of their programming will comprise Baroque through Romantic music, spanning approximately three centuries from about 1600 to the early 1900’s. What’s happened to serious music over the past half century? Which compositions, if any, will still be performed a century from now?
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