The process can feel antiquated, given how much of today’s music is recorded, produced, and mixed on computers that offer total control over one’s sounds. I was just in Nashville a couple weeks ago, and two composers came up with their scores and such enthusiasm. Just ten years ago, says Lizée, a new classical work’s debut was jokingly called “’The world dernière,’ because it was performed only once. And in the absence of aristocratic patrons (who subsidized the likes of Beethoven and Mozart), today’s composers need to be entrepreneurs. Trying to break into the classical music canon, he says, is akin to “having a model train set in your basement.

Source: National Post March 08, 2017 19:09 UTC