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Originally Posted by SONIC GAIL
This professor played trumpet which explains the Jazz obsession. Yes I do agree that in a classical learning atmosphere you will be taught the fuction, creation, and basic rules of writing and reading classical music. In the reality staying in that narrow minded world would limit the learning oppurtunities of what you can do to move classical music into modern times. The Beatle's music was not just about acid and hidden messages. They intigrated classical souds with Rock n Roll and did so very succesfully. There are many musical scores of the Beatle's that in my mind blow Mozart away.
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That last sentence is massively contentious to me, but it's good that someone thinks it, and I'm not sufficiently versed in classical criticism to negate it. The only question I'd ask is
which Mozart?
I think the thing for me is that most musical worlds are narrow-minded, it's not exclusively classical musicians and composers who are myopic. One of the problems with a lot of rock music now is that it's a sufficiently expansive genre for people to not need to venture outside of it. I'd argue that rock, unlike jazz, doesn't become stolid when it's entirely self-referential (the Cramps vs Courtney Pine).
I mean, I think the basic division I'd make is that the classical era is definitely a limited corpus, and a lot of 'classical music' fans are obviously narrow-minded (this is true of fans of most things, in general) but I personally (and naively) believe in a sense of 'art music' which includes Bingen, Tallis, Bach, Mozart, Mahler, Schoenberg, Messiaen, Cage, Feldman all the way through to, say, Sugimoto, Haco or at least Radelescu, Grisey, Parmegiani and Lachenmann.