Will we ever get classical style (long hair) music again?

I listen to Beethoven's violin concerto and it moves me. I like rock and blues and nearly every genre of music--- except for maybe polka/rap fusion! (tee-hee)





But nothing moves me like the classic romantic stuff, like Ludwig's music. I am also moved by the earlier sounds of Bach and contemporaries. The music has a special quality that sets it apart from everything else. ILL WE EVER GET THIS TYPE OF MUSIC AGAIN? I know I can HEAR it in a concert hall, or on my home stereo. But I mean, will we ever have those geniuses design such wonderful music like that again?Will we ever get classical style (long hair) music again?
There are few left I fear! I totally understand what you mean. Modern music is great to listen to but just doesn't have the musicality of some of those older, great composers. Unfortunately popular music has moved away from the composers and is more interested in the performers (and they aren't great performers a lot of the time either!) I don't know that we will ever get back to the likes of Beethoven and Bach and Handel, etc. but usually things change and previous 'fads' come back into fashion - lets hope that this is one of them!Will we ever get classical style (long hair) music again?
Not likely, in my opinion. The era of artistic creativity which followed form and adhered to a set of guidelines that required discipline - dating all the way back to before the Renaissance - is over.





With the advent of an ever expanding technology which allows for an endless degree of self-expression with no defineable limits, the ';this is me'; dictum has become the main-stay of compositional modality.





The concept of ';melody'; and ';song';, is rarely encountered nowadays. Monotony, meaningless improvisation seems to be the rule of the day.





Alberich
To theBanshee, there was always folk music even in Beethoven and Mozart's time. Each on of them wrote dances which to them was very similar to our rock music.


To the OP. There still is. John Adams is an amazing composer still composing music to this day. Listen to the third movement of his violin concerto. It's easy to listen to has a great melody and is entirely orginal. We had a ton of great composers last century and hopefully this century it will continue. (John Adams Violin Concerto was written in 1993)
I really don't know. I have a couple of friends who are amazing classical composers, but for some reason, they aren't publishing their stuff! But yeah, nothing can move you like classical music. Wordless classical music.....
I really don't think we will. Music evolves just like everything else. Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Vivaldi, Wagner, guys like that, in my opinion were the hard rockers of their day and that day unfortunately is gone. Except for a handful of diehards the evolution of music will continue to degrade. It doesn't make sense though, as technology advances music subsides. Just imagine what Ludwig could have done if he had access to today's instrumentation and technology. LVB Plugged In!!! Polka/rap fusion, YIKES!!! I'd have to add opera to that list too, can't stand listening to a screaming woman!!!





edit: Speaking of diehards, have you ever heard of Doug Smith from Lubbock Texas? Particularly his ';West Texas';, they use it to demo the sound system at the Omni-Max theatre in Lubbock. An amazing acoustic pianist, a big old country boy, always wears a big cowboy hat. Quote, I prefer to call myself a piano player, where I come from if you call yourself a pianist people tend to look at ya kinda funny, Doug Smith





If you've never heard him give him a try, you'll love his music.





http://www.dougsmith.com/official_site.s鈥?/a>
I know what you mean. Classical music can be so beautiful. I often listen to opera in my house and my friends give me a hard time about it. There still are composers out there creating music but its going un-noticed because if you think about it, back then when Beethoven was alive, classical music was the hype andgot all the publicity and now new works are going undiscovered. I wonder if they'res some way to bring it back.


I tend to like the more depressing classical musics, i dont know why but they are just so nice to listen to. Beethovens ';moonlight sonata'; is so pretty. You should definatly check out Yann Tiersen's music. He did the music from the French movie ';Amelie';
Isn't it strange how so many of us look forward to the next new play by some major playwright - the newest TV series or Hollywood blockbuster? Odd how we lap-up new literature and new visual art but shy away from 'new' music. I admit that there is good and bad music being written today, but those who simply dismiss all of it as if it were the same are just not listening enough. It's not OK to hear one 'modern' work you dislike and then dismiss the rest of it as all the same. We have more variety of music being written now than at any time in musical history. We should relish that variety and support GOOD new music - not hanker after pale imitations of the great music that has gone before.





Beethoven was thought insane by many of his contemporaries - he was the 'modern' music of his day. Wagner caused huge rifts in the musical world. Stravinsky broke the mould almost like no-one before (Beethoven excepted). We now embrace those composers as great cornerstones of classical music and it is insulting to suggest that there are no great composers around anymore. What about Nicholas Maw, Kalevi Aho, John Corigliano and Arvo P盲rt? Haven't heard their music? Then you are not qualified to comment!





'Classical' music was NEVER the music of the masses. There has always been popular music which the 'man in the street' listened to. It it foolish and ignorant for anyone to suggest that 'classical' music was all there was in the past.
Classical music didn't start out being ';classical'; - it was THE only music there was at some time, and a lot of it WAS that day's version of popular music.





There are many serious composers out there, but really, why would they want to write the same music as Bach (great as he was!) or Beethoven (not one of my favorites). It would only be obviously copying someone else's style. Unfortunately, even serious music is subject to trends and fashions.





There is a TON of music from the classical period that you might not have heard yet. There is ALWAYS music from whatever period you like that you can discover. Listening to a classical music station will help you find even more music that you love.





If you like Internet radio, try Pandora.com, where you can create your own classical genre station - if someone's still doing something that resembles Bach or Beethoven, that is where you'll discover the artists and composers currently out there. Good luck! Pandora.com is the best!.