Terry Teachout's assessment of the future


http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=11904073_1

This is a well put-together article by Terry Teachout assessing the 21st century concerns of the direction of 'classical' music. I think people are waiting for the next great work or composer to change the direction of music in the 21st century--if we could all program now with combining the best of over 300 years without fear that we'd be reprimanded because it doesn't stick with the norm, there's a great wealth of music out there--and I'm waiting for a foundation or commissioning project that invites the creme-de la-creme movie score writers to start churning out symphonic works and concerti. The agency Gorfaine/Schwartz has the arsenal of composers--have many of them been commissioned to compose for the concert hall as of yet?