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Essays
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The Vanishing American Composer
The more we move into the 21st century, the more obvious becomes the lack of musical education in our schools.
Fewer and fewer young people seem to have the opportunity for learning an instrument. Singers are really all most kids see and which the primary focus of pop television seems to further.
It is a good time to begin rethinking our American musical heritage of the 20 th century.
It is rather sad to think that the music of composers like William Schuman, Walter Piston, and Roy Harris may go the way of so many other composers. There are flashes of brilliance in some of our orchestras, but caution is the key. With a recording industry bent on rehashing and reissuing back catalogue, or as is the case now since the BMG/Sony merger, combining alternate catalogues there is little hope for much new recording of anything really new. Those interested in new American music really have to dig, or surf a lot, to find this music.
Only Naxos continues to provide a consistent overview of music from America (and many other countries) which must shamefully be recorded overseas most of the time.
Orchestras though are figuring out they need new product on shelves if they are going to survive.
What will they turn to in the future for recording purposes?
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