Is Old Music Killing New Music?

Looks like someone let the grouchy old men out...

One of teh nice things about streaming is it enables exploring music that otherwise might go unheard.   You don't have to buy to listen and you can let the service decide what to play next that you might like....you don't have to even know about it prior.  Try it you'll like it!  

THere is a composer/conductor named Steve Hackman who is taking new music like Rap, Radiohead, Coldplay, and others and mixing it with the classics to form new hybrid versions of the older classic standards that might appeal to a wider modern audience. So using newer music to freshen up the old. I saw his Radiohead versus Brahms show at the Meyerhoff in Baltimore the other weekend and it was very well done and most enjoyable, mixing in parts of OK Computer with Brahms 1st Symphony to create something new and similar but different. It featured three lead vocalists to-boot so the Radiohead lyrics were part of the new thing, no editing for parental approval either... The younger generations represented a good portion of the crowd (mostly full house) and a long standing O closed things out. The show opened with a rousing version of "Creep", followed by the new hybrid Symphony.

Steve Hackman's symphony shows  are a must hear for music lovers if the show comes your way.  Most highly recommended!

Neither of my 20 something kids are big fans of new music only. My daughter likes the 80s in particular and both mix it up quite a bit. I’ve always exposed them both to all kinds of music growing up both at home and about. Streaming services change the game. They emphasize the new but it is all out there at ones fingertips. A far cry from when I was a kid with only a handful of decent broadcast radio stations to choose from and everything to come in the future not even there yet.

There is more and more music to choose from over time.  That’s a wonderful thing!