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I used to play horn in a community orchestra, though I left it when I moved away, it went under due to Covid, and I haven't gotten back into community activities since moving back. I'm a fan, though obviously it's a pretty broad genre and it's not all good.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

I like contemporary classical

There's definitely some good contemporary stuff out there (mostly movie and game scores, actually), though I find a lot of the people that consider themselves contemporary composers tend to really like making more "artsy" stuff that throws in weird dissonance, unusual rhythms, and other things that generally come across as more a matter of deliberate counterculture than actually trying to make something that's enjoyable to listen to. That's not to say there's no place for dissonance, since I do like me some Stravinsky, but the whole angle of trying really hard to be weird and artsy doesn't really appeal to me (in any artistic medium).

Lokarin posted...

I used to like it, but after a while I learned that classical is practically just a Top 40 station at this point, you can't find any obscure shit cuz it wasn't documented 400 years ago

It's true that you aren't going to find anything by anyone that wasn't popular enough to be documented, since that's just the nature of history, but there's still plenty of stuff out there that anyone that isn't a classical scholar (or romantic, or baroque, since the distinction kind of matters when you're talking academia) isn't likely to recognize. Heck, even within the Bachs and Beethovens of the world, there are reams upon reams of works that the vast majority of people you talk to won't have heard before (especially Bach, who was insanely prolific).