Jeff Dunn said:

>Now let's put the shoe on the other foot of the "good-old-days" music
>lovers, and ask them for 10 19th-century compositions since Tristan (1859)
>that are as significant, well constructed and original as said same.

For that matter, now that the phrase "20th-century music" has a decidedly
old-fashioned ring about it, let's ask ourselves if we can name even 5
*21st-century* compositions that can rightly be considered as equals to the
"significant, well-constructed, and original" works of our beloved 20th,
with its many geniuses.

Admittedly, the 21st century still has to find its own clothing, and there
hasn't been any time as yet for an actual *new* generation of composers to
come about; like the late-19th-century Romantics who lived on into the
early 20th-century, the current major figures in music are holdovers from
a previous age.  I must say, as a 17-year-old musician and music lover, I
plan to make the most of my coming anachronism by living at least until
2080, so that I can scoff at the "melodious garbage" that composers may
then be producing, giving me the opportunity to wax sentimental about the
musique concrete and hard-core serialism of the good old days.  ;-)

(Sorry, Mr. Boulez! I couldn't resist.)

"John R. Sisk" <[log in to unmask]>