At 20:46 01/01/2002 -0300, Ricardo M. Forno wrote:
I have never said "old music good, new music bad".
Well, that's what Jim Muth said. You seemed to agree.
In fact, I love Stravinsky and some others. I like some and dislike some, both new and old music. I only pointed to the fact that new classical (note: classical, not nearly popular such as Vangelis') music is usually (note: usually) harsher and more dissonant than older music.
Classical music was popular music when it was written. Verdi was the Vangelis of his day. What's the difference? The choice of instruments? Does that make "Enter Sandman" as performed by the San Fransisco Philharmonic classical music? I don't actually care about the answer, since it's irrelevant anyway. Maybe you and Jim Muth just have to put the effort into appreciating modern music, as he claims people don't. If you don't like it, well that's your loss, but come back in three hundred years and you'll probably see people saying the older stuff like Jarre or Gerswhin or Mercury or McCartney is much better than the harsh and dissonant stuff of today. Morgan L. Owens "Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds with their highly original sound. The pianos they played are still working, but they're both six feet underground."