{"id":618,"date":"2009-06-02T12:24:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T16:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=618"},"modified":"2009-06-02T12:47:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T16:47:37","slug":"world-music-sweeping-the-classical-music-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"World Music, Sweeping the Classical Music Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since coming to New York City, world music has begun to take off as a central movement in the traditional art music scene.\u00a0 It is interesting because of how long it took to arrive at this point.\u00a0 Back in the early and mid-nineties was when the seeds for the now adolescent world music scene came to be.\u00a0 Classical music was a wreck, orchestras folding and interest in it declining.\u00a0 I can point out why the car wreck of the art form I love most occurred, but that’s another post for a day when I have lots of time. World music had been around before, I can point to Hetor Villa-Lobos, some of Bela Bartok’s more musicological works, or even Philip Glass’ Satyagraha from 1980.\u00a0 Still, these tendencies weren’t what I would say constituted the singular movement it is now.\u00a0 These were disparate threads reflecting parts of the composers’ lives, which they thought would be interesting to explore.<\/p>\n

Back to the 1990’s.\u00a0 Osvaldo Golijov<\/a>, the prominent Argentinian composer, had his first “major” recorded work on a Kronos quartet CD in 1994, while Zhou Long, a composer who writes music reflecting his ethnic Chinese background, didn’t have his career take off until the mid to late nineties.\u00a0 Still, the movement really didn’t make a ton of noise until the early 2000’s when Golijov started scoring big hits in the classical scene, Yo-Yo Ma recorded his first Silk Road Album, or when Philip Glass revisited world music, this time more thoroughly, with Orion.<\/p>\n

Now, when I go listen to a new music concert, there is at least one work that is world music.\u00a0 I am currently playing with the Manhattan Camerata<\/a> which has programmed (essentially) an entire concert of world music.\u00a0 Here, the heads of the organization, Lucia Caruso, Pedro de Silva and Ramon Catalan have built (are building) their classical<\/em> careers on world music.<\/p>\n

I think that world music is exciting and a ton of fun to listen to, but I have a hard time feeling profound ideas expressed by the music.\u00a0 This may be my orientalist view of the world as an American, or it could just be my ontological distance from what the music might mean. \u00a0 But, I feel that world music, no matter how much it has resurrected the classical genre, cannot replace the serious European art music style in expressing the chilling or profound.\u00a0 I hope to be proven wrong on this though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since coming to New York City, world music has begun to take off as a central movement in the traditional art music scene. It is interesting because of how long it took to arrive at this point. Back in the early and mid-nineties was when the seeds for the now adolescent world music scene came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}