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View Poll Results: Is classical music still relevant today?
YES 193 93.69%
NO 13 6.31%
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Old 08-21-2021, 09:27 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I voted no on this one.

No one (in general), by choice, goes out of their way to listen to classical music any more. Tastes change. Today, classical music basically has a niche of performances at amphitheaters so that bougie people can spend lots of money to feel classy and sophisticated and pretend that they enjoy and appreciate what they're hearing. Fitting for a style of music that originally was mostly commissioned to be created and performed by rich nobleman and royalty of old.

Classical music, like most genres of music in the past that were popular, has made its imprint in the form of influence, but as for its relevance today? Nah, it ain't. If I want to hear music that is interesting and compelling, I'd sooner reach for latter-career recordings from Miles and Coltrane than Mozart and Cannabich.

Last edited by SGR; 08-21-2021 at 09:34 PM.
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