The hard bop blues of,
say, Art Blakey, make you feel better than the beautiful sentimental
adagios of Miles Davis which can make you feel even bluer. After a
glass of wine who can beat Diane Krall's "Quiet Nights?"
Classical composers were
usually composing for a world of aristocrats, which is why the music
could be so excellent, but that is not our world today. Bach
is eternal, but we need serious modern composers. Atonal music has
been a damaging farce, like much of modern art---hundreds of years of
Western music was stopped. Wagner's
classical-romantic ethos needed to be extended in tonal not atonal
Western forms rather than destroyed following the World Wars.
“Twilight of the Gods”? Why not another birth? (see "Can
There be Great Composers Anymore?")
Rock? Mostly goalless
anarchy, or pure hedonism. Hip Hop? It's base is violent anti-white
black racism. Country music? White boys trying to hold on to some
dignity in a world that denigrates them, but usually lost in Celtic
drunkenness. Folk and ethnic revival? Holds promise but hides totally
in the past.
Modern life-affirming new
creations are needed for all these old musical forms.
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