Mr Lasastryke | Posted 7/16/2011 6:12:25 AM | message detail | quote
I listed examples of what I presume Saro thinks are the great composers in history. Para says "people like that are still creating music today." I reply: "who, then?"
To be perfectly fair, I can't just conjure up names of people to compare to Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart, but then I realized that this is an entirely loaded question because it's completely stupid to even try to compare people to Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. They were old masters who lived centuries ago who revolutionized music and came to be known as paragons of entire periods of music that stretched for 100-150 years. Of course nobody today can compare to that, because they live today! It's completely unfair to expect anyone right now to be a legend worthy of being mentioned in the same breath. So I could mention any of the hundreds or thousands of people who are making great music, but it'd be a pointless exercise because no, of course they're not Beethoven, he's been friggin' dead for centuries.
So to answer the question, who's still creating good music today? Tons of people. Stop listening to the radio and actually go looking for it.