Atonal music is not dead at all. It is alive and kicking! I'd even say writing atonally is still the way to go when it comes to contemporary art music. The most exciting and most innovative composers of today (Carter, Boulez, Birtwistle, Lachenmann, Ferneyhough, Kurtag, Jonathan Harvey, Olga Neuwirth, etc.) all compose in a more or less atonal idiom. I believe there are still endless new possibilities waiting to be explored within the atonal realm and the modernist aesthetic.
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Originally Posted by Gardener
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Just a side note - what a terrible performance of one of my favorite Schoenberg works. It seems like Beroff was just rushing through these pieces, while that typical Viennese expressionist touch (which these pieces need) was almost completely missing...