very true! and this globalizing trend has been present for a long time in the art music world. from the turn of the 20th century on, you see the influence of music from indonesia, india, africa, china, japan.... composers start replacing exoticism with respectful borrowings and nods to other cultures (actually learning from them), and art composers emerge from all over the globe. It's a pretty exciting time to live in, musically speaking! i go to a western conservatory, but am learning there to play javanese gamelan, and i can take classes in music from all over the world, hear concerts by indian classical musicians, african drumming ensembles, and so on.
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"I often wonder if I should have been born at another time. My senses are unusually, some might say unnaturally keen, and ours is an era of distraction. It's a punishing drumbeat of constant input. It follows us into our homes and into our beds. It seeps into our... Into our souls, for want of a better word. [...] In my less productive moments, I'm given to wonder.... If I had just been born when it was a little quieter out there, [...] Might I have been more focused? A more fully realized person?"
-Sherlock, in Elementary ("The Marchioness")
26 Jul 2015, 4:06 pm
