Music Banter - View Single Post - Pop music played by an orchestra, is that classical music?

vibratoviolin · 05-21-2014, 06:00 AM

I would think if the arrangements are modified in such a way that the new 'classical' version becomes a piece of it's own, in some cases you can start to speak about a classical piece.

What Night of the Proms does: invite pop artists and have their music played by an orchestra (and choir) (notp.com), this clearly doesn't make it classical music.

But if you go one or a couple of bridges further than that, it must be possible to result in a classical piece, even if the original is a pop song?! (can anybody name examples of this last scenario?)

05-21-2014, 06:00 AM	#8 (permalink)
vibratoviolin Groupie Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 3	I would think if the arrangements are modified in such a way that the new 'classical' version becomes a piece of it's own, in some cases you can start to speak about a classical piece. What Night of the Proms does: invite pop artists and have their music played by an orchestra (and choir) (notp.com), this clearly doesn't make it classical music. But if you go one or a couple of bridges further than that, it must be possible to result in a classical piece, even if the original is a pop song?! (can anybody name examples of this last scenario?)