Classical Renaissance?

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/classical-music-resurgence-1.7415707

 

[eljr]

You really should say something in an opening post.

As to the claim
Not your grandma's Shostakovich: How classical music is attracting younger audiences
I call bullshit.

He does not qualify nor quantify. The writer simply expresses his opinion. An opinion formed by his wanting to believe. Cherry picked data which one could do to say the opposite.

 

[TLS Guy]

You really should say something in an opening post.

As to the claim
Not your grandma's Shostakovich: How classical music is attracting younger audiences
I call bullshit.

He does not qualify nor quantify. The writer simply expresses his opinion. An opinion formed by his wanting to believe. Cherry picked data which one could do to say the opposite.

It is not bullshit. Young people are suddenly turning to classical music in droves. I think it is because of easy access from streaming. That is what I think is happening.
The rock pop scene is just junk program from top to bottom, and now the fake facade is getting called. All concert halls are noticing a big drop in the average age of audiences including here in Minnesota. I stream lots of concert from around the world, and I notice an increasing lowering of the age of the audiences.

The other factor is that the atonal music of the new Viennese school is dying the death predicted by Sir Thomas Beecham. He stated that "not one nth part of it will survive." It has taken a while, but now we have composers around the world writing music that people, and especially the young, wand to hear. The applause is now deafening for this new music and not the polite applause for the awful rackets we have been exposed to for a century. Serious exciting music is back and with a huge following.

 

[eljr]

It is not bullshit. Young people are suddenly turning to classical music in droves. I think it is because of easy access from streaming. That is what I think is happening.
The rock pop scene is just junk program from top to bottom, and now the fake facade is getting called. All concert halls are noticing a big drop in the average age of audiences including here in Minnesota. I stream lots of concert from around the world, and I notice an increasing lowering of the age of the audiences.

The other factor is that the atonal music of the new Viennese school is dying the death predicted by Sir Thomas Beecham. He stated that "not one nth part of it will survive." It has taken a while, but now we have composers around the world writing music that people, and especially the young, wand to hear. The applause is now deafening for this new music and not the polite applause for the awful rackets we have been exposed to for a century. Serious exciting music is back and with a huge following.

Off subject a bit but I love that your studio is not in a basement as most are. I can't enjoy music the same without windows and greenery. OK, a cityscape has also served me well.

 

[TLS Guy]

Off subject a bit but I love that your studio is not in a basement as most are. I can't enjoy music the same without windows and greenery. OK, a cityscape has also served me well.

We don't watch a lot of movies. Usually when one of our children or the grandchildren want to watch one. It is a good movie experience though, especially because dialog is clear and natural. Like you, I don't like dungeons, and would hate this room to have dark walls and no windows. I did wire the room for a projector but have not been tempted to go down that route. The picture from the LG OLED is spectacularly good, and I don't think any projector could match, just produce a larger picture. I know purist movie buffs would object, but the room tells the story dramatically, and the sound effects can be terrifying. There may be no subs by the usual definitions, but you would not want sound effects deeper or louder. Butt kickers are absolutely not required here. In the end it is a demonstration of how using physics to your advantage beats brute force easily.

But the room is used predominantly to stream concerts and opera, and for all manner of digital discs, LPs and some tapes. Streaming has really opened up, although few classical discs have been made. However the BPO have really led the way in Atmos concert streaming. It has been a learning curve, for them. They are making progress at speed. I suspect a lot of time and effort goes into producing these Atmos streams, as there is a significant delay between the release of the two channel lossless FLAC stream and the Atmos streams which actually is getting longer. However their latest efforts I find astonishing in their realism especially the depth of the sound field, at least on this rig.

What I am curious about is how many members are availing themselves of these Atmos streams and how. From what little they have shared with me, it seems most are using Atmos enabled headphones. I wish they would survey their very large membership, as I think the data would be very interesting and useful.