The last century has witnessed the ascendancy of the avant-garde in music. From Schoenberg to Boulez to Stockhausen, the avant-garde has defined the modern conception of musical creativity. Contemporary serious music demands the new in terms of style, form and ways of listening and hearing. Implicit in this approach is the rejection of the old, from the baroque to the music of the later 19th-century symphonists. Paradoxically, however, it is this old repertoire which contiues to dominate concert programmes.
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