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Regaining Classical Music's Relevance

Saving the Muse in a Troubled World

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Buch | Hardcover
120 Seiten
2024 | New edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-5314-9 (ISBN)
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In this volume, pioneering composer and Cambridge University alumnus John Borstlap explores the burning question of Western classical music’s relevance in a troubled modern world. Why have classical music at all? Is it elitist, or racist, or misogynistic? Should it adapt to modern needs – and, if so, what are they? While Western classical music is booming in Latin America and East Asia, in the West, performers, orchestras, opera houses, promotors, managements, and educators are struggling to explain why this type of music belongs to society as an important common good. What does classical music do to the listener? What is its relationship with Nature, and human nature? Practitioners and music lovers will find in this book a thorough analysis of these problems, a surprising relationship between music and the human mind, and suggestions for solutions which will help to affirm the art form as one of the great achievements of humanity.

John Borstlap is a prominent composer, producing music rooted in tradition, comparable with new classical architecture and new figurative painting. He is also a cultural philosopher writing about art history and 20th century music, with articles published in several newspapers and musical journals. He has been involved in polemics about contemporary music and explored the idea of a European cultural Renaissance since 1970s, which has only begun to be recognized as a valuable contribution in recent years (his work represents “the voice of European culture,” according to the late Sir Roger Scruton). He studied at the Rotterdam Conservatory, completed a master’s degree at Cambridge University, and is the author of The Classical Revolution (2017). His chamber music is performed regularly; notable orchestral premières took place in Amsterdam, Manchester, Montpellier, Dallas and Hong Kong.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10 1-5275-5314-0 / 1527553140
ISBN-13 978-1-5275-5314-9 / 9781527553149
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