In our Then & Now series, Seth Lorinczi discusses traditional versus modern classical music and how modern classical music is a vibrant, growing, and very much alive genre.
https://blog.songtrust.com/then-now-modern-classical
* hand-cranked gramophone
* Frederic Chopin
* Franz Schubert
* Gustav Mahler
* Richard Strauss
* Verklärte Nacht
* Quartet for Winds No. 26
* 12-tone system
* The Firebird
* Rite of Spring
* remains an open question
* transfixing strangeness and beauty
* orchestral works
* the very idea of music itself
* electronic instruments such as the synthesizer
* Mills College
* Indonesian gamelan
* Burundian drumming
* György Ligeti
* Delia Derbyshire
* John Adams
* Steve Reich
* Philip Glass
* De Profundis
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