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I said this in an earlier thread. Without going into too much detail, I think classical music today has become too unfollowable to the casual listener. The genius of Penderecki and such composers is only discernible to a highly competent musical ear, or...with a score, and even then, you would need to be able to read music, let alone the complex music of some of the contemporary stuff. Some compositional techniques these days are not extraordinarily apparent in sound form as they are on paper. "Good on the page, not on the stage" as I like to say.
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