scott3x said:
I think it's more that most popular music is no longer classical in nature. I personally really enjoy some music from Erik Satie and Debussy, or Holst's "The Planets", but I know that they all died at the beginning of the 20th century. I suppose the most recent classical composer I really like, who also had a strong jazz influence, would be Gershwin, but even he didn't make it to World War II
.
What, no love for Stockhausen, Xenakis and Cage?
Haven't even heard of them until you brought them up (the wonders of wiki
). Maybe if I did, I'd like their music; not sure. Is Cage a rapper? He's the name that came up on wiki ;-). Admittedly, I heard most of all the classical music that I like from my father.
I note that Xenakis got into electronic music; if we allow -electronic- music to be considered as classical, then I must admit that I love Ray Lynch
.
Upon further thought, I do believe there -is- a modern classical composer that I really do appreciate-
Philip Glass. The music he played in the movie
Memento, which I consider to be my all time favourite sad movie, moves me deeply. Perhaps since I saw it in the movie, however, I don't have the desire to listen to it alone, but rather with the movie. The same goes for the great music in the Star Wars movies, as well as the starter music in Star Trek, TNG, laugh ;-).
I think some animes have classical music in them; I guess I haven't been paying so much attention to the type, but I really do like a lot of the music in some animes anyway ;-).