Hi Tom.
Actually my point here was more about music, particularly "classical" music
(though I prefer the term orchestral music myself), is presented to people.
A lot of classical musicians are extremely unpleasant and exclusivist, and
reffuse to acknolidge that orchestral music is used in other contexts, or
can be enjoyed for it's emotive quality. yet all the Orchestral stuff I
enjoy is from the romantic, not classical period, the point when emotion,
melody, and all the things known in modern film score were first coming into
practice.
I'm therefore fairly certain that someone who liked john williams, james
horner or John turner, would be pretty likely to enjoy similar themes,
styles and expression in Stravinski, Holst or rimski korsikov.
However most people don't tend to think like this, sinse most people, ----
yourself included it would seem, put "classical" music into one box, and say
"I don't like that" and put film or indeed game score into an utterly
different box.
I was very pleased for instance that in the recent Uk classic fm charts, an
orchestral arrangement of Airis' theme from final fantasy 7, arranged by the
conductor Arny roth, actually came 14th in their yearly hall of fame, a set
of 300 peaces chosen by people's votes each year.
The problem however is that lots of orchestral music is presented extremely
badly, by people with absolutely no idea how to talk to an audience who
would rather be exclusive about what they do and have fewer people involved,
than aknolidge that they work in the same genre as John williams and the
like.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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