#dyingarts

Submitted by Mike K:   https://www.dailynews.com/2018/03/20/guitar-centers-1-billion-in-debt-reveals-truth-about-musical-tastes/

I give Classical, Jazz, and older rock maybe another 10 years before they are relegated to the dustbin of history. 

I’m 57, bachelors from Berklee and a masters from Carnegie Mellon, both in composition. I’ve been teaching privately for almost 30 years. I’ve watched the desire of younger generations, decline, not wanting to even play let alone listen, to older music. 

Many past forms of art have been set aside and so will ours. What we’re all experiencing here is the slow death of older music. 

Also waning, not as rapidly, is the desire for young people to learn how to play an instrument. Currently 86% of the population does NOT play a musical instrument. The number of people who actually understand the language (theory) is even lower. I’m still searching, after 42 years, for composer/players interested in doing my and their music, no such luck here in Pittsburgh. 

We are facing a technological revolution in an art that has become a commercial cesspool for consumerism and not a proponent of true high art. 

http://www.soundcloud.com/musicinventor1 

JazzRuinedMyLife:   I’ve thought that the number of young people playing instruments is declining too.  Just my observation.  I wasn’t basing it on anything scientific. 

Regarding the popularity of jazz and classical music, I don’t know what the future is going to be. It’s interesting because you can get on YouTube and watch hundreds of videos with virtuoso kids flawlessly playing jazz tunes and classical pieces and everything else you can imagine.  That makes you feel good about the future.  But like you mentioned, it seems like the average person has less basic understanding and appreciation of music now than in past decades.  With all the cuts in arts and music education, that’s a trend that will probably continue in the future.