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Donald Satz wrote:
>Lindsey Orcutt wrote in response to me:
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>>> I keep reading that classical music of the 21st century will take
>>> on a new face of eclecticism and fusion with other musical
>>> categories as classical melds with Asian, Middle East,.....
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>>Where are you reading this? Can you cite examples?
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>It would be mighty difficult at this point to cite specific references, and
>this is no term paper. The conclusions I came to were based on interviews
>I read of classical division heads, marketing gurus, and the reading of
>classical recording periodicals and magazines.
If no one has done a thorough study of this, someone should, and if
someone has, I too would like to be referred to it. I definitely see this
trend already well under way. CM is no longer "European music" -- it is
not only being performed, but also composed on nearly every continent (I'm
not too sure about Antarctica), and of course there is no more obstacle to
"melding" Asian, Middle Eastern, and other traditional musics with it than
there was in the case of Hungarian, Slavic, etc., musics in past centuries.
This is to me a very exciting development.
Despite what the music biz calls "world music," I think that CM really
deserves that appellation today.
Jon Johanning // [log in to unmask]
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