What Happened to Classical Music - Part 2

The saga continues. In this podcast I go into what atonalism and serialism are and how the ideology grew up around them designating these techniques as the future of classical music in the Twentieth Century. I talk about the philosopher/social critic Theodore Adorno and his still relevant critique of the commercialization of music which lead to the lionizing and exploitation of trivial music which he designated “bourgeois”. Unfortunately his antidote was to push intentionally ugly music that drove the audience out of the concert hall and stopped the forward momentum of a great art form.