I have serious doubts that today's academic so-called "classical" music will survive the test of time. Our heritage of orchestral music consists of music that large audiences enjoyed when the composers were alive. I don't think that this contemporary claptrap meets the same criteria.

Many jazz enthusiasts call jazz "American classical music" or something like that, and they have a point. I realize that many of y'all Mudcatters have little or no interest in jazz, and/or dislike what jazz you've been exposed to, but the best of it is both serious and listenable, to many folks anyway, and stands a decent chance of being remembered long into the future.

A hundred years from now, who's going to be listening to this guy Corigliano? Or even Stockhausen, John Cage, et. al.? Anyone, you think? They're *much* more likely still to be listening to Dylan and the Beatles, to Stachmo and Coltrane, Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald, Gerhwin and Cole Porter, etc.

I think the last hope for modern-art academic so-called-classical music died when Phil Lesh quit music grad school to play bass for Grateful Dead.