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redshirt posted:Dumb question perhaps: Is there an active scene of new classical music? People making it, and people listening to it? Going to concerts? I mean yeah, the same way that people are actively writing new plays, sculpting new pieces, painting, etc. The art form doesn't stop just because there isn't a mass audience for it. You just don't hear new classical pieces because, unless you're actively involved in the classical music scene, how would you? Orchestras occasionally play premieres and newer works, but aside from their pops concerts they're going to focus on playing music from the Baroque/Classical/Romantic Eras because that's what the dwindling audience they cater to wants to hear. Most of the kind of music you're thinking of lives only in academia now, so generally the only way you'll hear it live is if you've got a kid in a high school band or orchestra, or if you live near a university and go to their concerts.
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Here's a quick sampling of modern classical music: Orchestra Anna Clyne - Masquerade (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEOchchAuWk Zhou Long - The Rhyme of Taigu (2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I8uP-ldAbA Wind Band David Maslanka - Symphony No. 4 (1993) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePNJZttpAx0 Steven Bryant - Concerto for Wind Ensemble, Mv. 5 (2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNP6POmNjLs Choir Eric Whitacre - Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine (2001) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsLiivVgxmM Pärt Uusber - Ilus Ta Ei Ole (2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t9DoJ-02iE Opera Philip Glass - "Knee Play 5" from Einstein on the Beach (1976) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWjbkg8aNq0 Gregory Spears - "Quite a View" from Fellow Travelers (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_6aUA94Fpc
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It's worth mentioning that there's also a long history of classical electronic music, such as tape music and musique concrète, computer music, electro-acoustic music, etc. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Studie II (1954) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwj6ZptPnDo Barry Truax – Riverrun (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u81IGEFt7dM Paul Lansky - Notjustmoreidlechatter (1994) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HGAsvl53eQ As you get deeper into it, you start moving into the realm of installations and sound sculptures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP36xoPXDnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDjn1-Sw8As https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1e6DWSnqpI
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