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Originally Posted by ecarroll  Personally I feel that modern music is far more vital today than in any other time within the past 50 years. Boundaries are also being broken between styles of music -- a real plus.
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Ed,
I don't mean to put you on the spot here, but could you expand on what you mean here? When you say "modern music", are you implying any kind of "style", or do you simply mean anything written "now"? Why is it more important now than it was before?
It does seem that orchestras like S.F. and L.A. are increasing their concert going attendance, but are these orchestras playing new music regularly? The side question I have to all of this is...how do we market modern music to an audience (especially in light of my earlier comment that drew upon Adorno's "meaningless" comments).