Current Trends in a "new" Musical Age
Music/Art and their Moral Responsibility
Stephan Maria Karl
Independent from any aesthetic discussion, I think that we are already turning into a new musical era. The new music, as we know since the time of Schönberg, is out of the way for a too long time, in a self-made ghetto full of intellectuals. The new music scene is synthetically kept in life by support of the state, since its beginning, and is too weak to survive by its own power.
Whereas mainly an older generation is determining the cultural life, in the younger generation of artists and composers I think to recognize a gradually change of their views, expressed in the desire for more simplicity, understanding, naturalness and emotionality.
The new musical epoch, that will probably begin official in the next 10-30 years (maybe aroused by an economical crisis, environment crisis, social-cultural revolution or even a big war), will bring back again its charisma, monumentality, mastery and power. It will again send light into the depth of human heart, its audience will be delighted or tormented, will be brought into laughing or crying. Winning back its reputation people’s opinion, moral ideas and social life will be influenced.
You laugh about it? Me too! Anyway I am unshakeable convinced from this necessarily coming cultural change! I dream about it, I believe in it, I feel it. My convincing is my artistic capital and my individuality, my dreams and hopes are my impulses. I know that the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. I believe in my dreams. I work for my dreams. I sweat for my dreams.
