Where did the great composers go?
I was speaking with my father the other day and the subject of 20th century composers came up. He noted that most of the well known classical musical composers of the 20th century were born in the late 1800's. This led us to discuss where the musical talent that would have written great classical music went. He contends that the talent simply went away as people stopped demanding it as new muscial styles came into popularity. I'm thinking that it merely got channeled into other forms of music. What do you think and who do you think the great composers or artists of the second half of the 20th century are?
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