New Music

Music throughout the ages has been based mainly on folk song, dance music, love songs. The Beatles' "Yesterday" would have been enjoyed by music lovers in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. As they would have enjoyed Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne", or Edith Piaf's "Je ne regrette rien". Folk song, dance music, and love songs are pretty well eternal. Not so much "classical" music after the beginning of the 20th century, that abandoned its roots and became increasingly the preserve of a few trendies, plus music academies. Apart from the music of Shostakovich, I can think of almost no music I listen to composed after 1960. The "music industry" attempts to thrust "new music" on us, but most of us resist with profound indifference. Give me the Beatles, Leonard Cohen or Edith Piaf any day when it comes to post- 1955.