I started a minor kerfuffel - the question was what is the category for new symphonic music in the "classic" mode?
At a record store which section would it be in?
This started when a friend gave me a copy of a very good symphony that was composed, I assume finally completed, and recorded last year.
If you had "classic" music playing in the background in your car, the only way I usually listen to it, this new composition would have passed for something you had missed in your previous listening.
Given that all I know about "classical" music is that it's all by long dead white composers, I don't have a clue where to find "new" stuff.
There are distinctions to be made about "Classic":
Classic in the sense of time tested?
Classic in the sense of a timeless achievement?
Classic in the form i.e. non symphonic "serious" music ( Ok Ok jazz is serious) like chamber music.
Where would Duke Ellington's symphonies fit?
How about small group "chamber music" jazz? Like the Modern Jazz Quartet?
Suggestions so far have included:
Contemporary Classic( Eileen Chekal)
Modern Orchestral(Phil Lowe)
Neo Classical(Phil Lowe)
Non Avant-Garde(Phil Lowe)
Competently Composed Music(Phil Lowe)
Competently Composed would start a whole new major mess( Who would decide) and include a very small group of compositions.
Anyway - Just what is "Classical" music and where do I go to find new(?) stuff without having to sort through piles of older music.
-AWL-
