My brother, the classical composer who writes TONAL music in the old manner, has been fighting the trendy BS of orchestras commissioning this kind of crap for years and years. He had several articles published about it back in the 80's when I was his chief cook and bottlewasher/agent. I guarantee you his music is beautiful, original, and well-received..no avant-garde, minimalistic, plagarism crap!:-)(Got him in big trouble with his professors, earlier at university too!) Here's an excerpt from his 1987 article, The Gaea Concept in Music:

speaking of "spiritual musicians" he says, "They realise that some pseudo-music is negative and darkening, while great music, music based on universal laws of harmony (such as the law of octaves in the checical elements, the septenary colors of the spectrum, etc.) has an uplifting effect on people, plants, and animals who in turn modify the planet herself.

"But what of so-called concert "serious" conductors and musicians alike? We find them commissioning and playing ...works of decadent, materialistic/reductionist composers who use bizarre instrumental and compositional techniques to cause inharmony and shock to the auric fields of their listeners. Yes -- as we have considered before, music affects the aura of animate entities and inanimate objetcs. Everyone knows how a glass can be shattered by a powerflly sung note from a tenor. Music is a powerful planetary modifier. The ancient Greeks realized this fact; thus the Greeks felt certain modes and rhythms were dangerous to play, even having a deleterious effect upon the State. Modern concert composers, however, with few exceptions, care only about airing their desperately negative feelings and emotions of futility under the guise of experimentalism in barrages of painfull ugly orchestral sounds.."© 1987 by Delton L. Hudson

Personally, I think those who use songs like Dylan's are just lazy, jaded, and lacking in creativity.

kat