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Music evolves. Sometimes it evolves in a crappy direction. Case in point: LFO.
We live in a society that wants so badly to fit in that they choose their favorites based on what they think other people will be impressed with. They listen to the songs over and over, and eventually, they learn to love them. I agree that most modern classical composers have lost what classical mosic had for so long: brilliance. No modern composer can be compared to Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Debussey, or Chopin. You simply can't do it. There may be people out tehre with that skill, but they aren't writing music. You can compare modern classical composers to otehr modern composers all you want. No one will ever be Bach again.
I understand your comparison from Cage to Stravinski, but it rubs me wrong. Stravinski knew that there were eventual boundries to music. As conceptually pleasing as Cage is, I feel that he falls out of the great composer list because of things like 4'33". Art for the sake of art is masterbation. It only pleases itself, and that leaves the art viewer, the one who is supposed to appreciate the art, alone with nothing but a reflection of the true spirit of the art.
I've given up on modern classical music. I gave it a chance, and it didn't meet with my expectations. I am perfectly content listening to pieces and songs written 80 years or more before my birth.
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