http://www.paulbailey.us/2004/08/02/the-next-big-thing/ composer, musician, educator Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:24:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.paulbailey.us/2004/08/02/the-next-big-thing/#comment-3 Matt Sun, 08 Aug 2004 22:53:00 +0000 http://www.paulbailey.us/?p=106#comment-3 i'm not sure what the 'next big thing' will be and i think it would be hard to see anyway, since we're kind of in the middle of it and living in the now. i think it's hard to say 'this is the musical idea that's going to represent our age' because i think the historians and musicologists will make that decision for us 150 years or so from now. i'm also not so sure that our current age won't be known as 'the commercial period' where composers, starving and needing to eat, flocked to hollywood to compose film scores after the public got fed up with their snooty music that they couldn't understand and stopped going to concert halls. so maybe the students of the future will be studying film scores instead of art music. the only good that will come of that turn of events is that eventually some composers will have to rebel and 'poof!' art music returns rising like a phoenix from the ashes refreshed and loaded with new and interesting ideas! :) i’m not sure what the ‘next big thing’ will be and i think it would be hard to see anyway, since we’re kind of in the middle of it and living in the now. i think it’s hard to say ‘this is the musical idea that’s going to represent our age’ because i think the historians and musicologists will make that decision for us 150 years or so from now. i’m also not so sure that our current age won’t be known as ‘the commercial period’ where composers, starving and needing to eat, flocked to hollywood to compose film scores after the public got fed up with their snooty music that they couldn’t understand and stopped going to concert halls. so maybe the students of the future will be studying film scores instead of art music. the only good that will come of that turn of events is that eventually some composers will have to rebel and ‘poof!’ art music returns rising like a phoenix from the ashes refreshed and loaded with new and interesting ideas!

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