Simen, the problem may be in the way you express yourself.
I read you posts and get the impression that you think that all new music is like those examples you posted. And you come back to that and then refer to mozart and bach.
But new music is so much MORE than just that. New music is as wide in stylistic variety as all of the music of the last 100 years.
So, I understand that you don't like the "experimental" and "atonal" music. But that doesn't mean it's the only thing being created by new composers. And audiences are quite aware that there is beautiful lyrical new music being written and performed.
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Composition isn't in such a great place right now, though. Art music (not just classical) has fallen out of the public eye, for the most part.
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I'm just showing you that it hasn't "fallen out of the public eye, nor is it in a bad place at all! New music is as vibrant as ever. And as varied as ever.
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yes true, and why? do you think the modern compositions is what the public wants to hear? the adstract atonal music ? no not at all, and that is why composition is going badly! The normal ear wants to hear some melody, they dont understand and dont care about this modern "interlectual" music. The sad thing is: composition should be very free at this point, we have many peridoes do choose form, but that is not accepted by schools or other composers. we "have" to compose modern music.
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And I said that new music is NOT necessarily "abstract atonal" music.
As for what they teach in schools, that's a completely different matter.
They SHOULD be showing you the latest techniques, even if you will not use them later, after you leave school.
You cannot decide you will not use something if you don't understand it first. Who knows, maybe you will be able to make something truly lyrical and beautiful even within the strictures of some very avant-garde technique. THAT is where the true art of a composer shows itself.
Atonal music is not the only valid new music.
But then, new tonal music is not invalid, either.
What IS questionable, is when someone simply parrots a style of music, without imprinting his own identity on it. But that is a considerably more difficult thing to identify correctly.
I don't write atonal music, or very little of it when I do. My music is mainly tonal-centered. However, I still try and incorporate elements of "modernism" into my music in some form or other. I believe it is the creative artist's duty to try and reflect at least a part of the period in which they live.
Someone might criticize me for not being "modern enough", but they can't criticize me for not trying.