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There is a lot to like in this genre of playing and Lord knows in my time playing with Styx and Alan Parsons Project I’ve branched out from strictly classical, romantic, neo-romantic and modern completely understand all the nuances. Were Beethoven (my muse for life as well as music). alive today) he would be pushing the envelope on all fronts, which includes developing themes which is something most modern groups DON’T do. Therefore, as much as I hate to say it, it comes off kind of gimmicky, which is a shame. Until serious contemporary composers include this playing style into their writing and adopt a kind of “3rd Viennese school” or “post-Schoenberg” or “post-Varese” or ANYTHING and invest in it and believe in it, this won’t last long, I’m afraid.
I do hope that there are good young student composers who are taking note of this; repetitiveness ala Philip Glass was always a dead-end to me and I heard some really good neo-romantic music coming out of school here in the U. S. I really am not up on what is going on in Europe at the moment. I suppose I should find out; someone over there may be working along the lines I’m talking about at this very minute.
Once the love affair with all things electronic goes away because it’s no longer “new” people will return to the concert halls, because there really is nothing like live music, experienced by the listener. I jump at the change to go and hear my colleagues play, or if another symphony is in town, I want to hear what they’re playing and how stylistically they’re different from us. It generally boils down to a matter of nuance and tempi and execution. Unless, of course like the time we we’re playing “Caravans”, and the conductor took it in 1 rather than 2 in rehearsal and I got lost right out of the gate, along with the rest of the viola AND the cello section. This was in some horrible little orchestra in Port Charlotte, that of course we re-named Port Harlot. #whatamess! Gotta love the music biz! We just took the money and ran on that one. Anyway, delightful, as always, Colin!