Re: The future

Jason Carucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 

> 20 years ago when I was just starting to get into contemporary music,
> there seemed to be a lot more opportunities to hear it.  Occasionally
> they would play it on the radio.  Even conservative institutions like
> the NY Philharmonic felt that they at least had some obligation to play
> contemporary music.  When I was growing up there were 3 classic radio
> stations in NYC.  Now the only classical radio station left, WQXR, is
> horrible.  They never ever play contemporary music (well OK I just
> heard them play Appalachian Spring today, wow how adventurous), it¹s
> mostly just the most innocuous, obscure baroque composer that is
> perfect when you are at the dentist. And this is NY City!!  I can just
> imagine what radio must be like in other parts of the country!
> 
> ..Well, hopefully I¹m just being too pessimistic, but from where I am,
> things don¹t like too bright.  Maybe the internet can provide the
> answer, but I haven't found too many sites that really provide much. 
> It seems to me like the one hope for composers is to use the internet
> to distribute their music and find an audience that way, but I don't
> see this happening yet.

Upstairs in the directory structure (rec.music.classical) there was a
debate about the latest "Lord of the Rings" sound track being
"symphonic" . It made very depressing reading - the lack of ambition,
patience & curiosity some people have..!

mark stratford