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[Christian Natta]

Hello friends and colleagues
The annoying simply an issue that is important to me. One day, someone told me that the "classical" composers were contemporaries in his time. What I've been thinking how much I admire so many composers, like everyone else, some are more to my liking and some not so, but I respect everyone for many reasons.
Many composers today, but here there is a beautiful group of them, and I ask you if you feel respected, if you have their rightful place in society.
Simple, but essential for me. Thanks for reading this.
big hug

Christian

[Joseph]

Feb 15, 2014 7:46:01 GMT Christian Natta said:

Hello friends and colleagues
. . . and I ask you if you feel respected, if you have their rightful place in society . .
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Christian

Ciao Christian, I hope you are healthy (and maybe getting a little more - piu mosso - happy .
Christian, our times are more celebrity-driven than ever.  Not that earlier times did not have their celebrities but our instant world-wide media access has transformed everything.  Truly (è vero) I cannot (non posso) be concerned with having a place in society.  If I can respect myself that will just have to sustain me.  If just one other person derives a few minutes of enjoyment from my work, then I, too, am a celebrity.  Salute!  Joseph

[adrianallan]

Feb 15, 2014 7:46:01 GMT Christian Natta said:

Hello friends and colleagues
The annoying simply an issue that is important to me. One day, someone told me that the "classical" composers were contemporaries in his time. What I've been thinking how much I admire so many composers, like everyone else, some are more to my liking and some not so, but I respect everyone for many reasons.
Many composers today, but here there is a beautiful group of them, and I ask you if you feel respected, if you have their rightful place in society.
Simple, but essential for me. Thanks for reading this.
big hug

Christian

I sometimes think that maybe my efforts will be appreciated on a small scale in a saner age, if there is still a planet left by then.

To be honest, if more people who downloaded my scores just left a comment or told me that they had been played, I would be happy. It sometimes happens, but rarely.

[Kevin]

I think that we as composers are in a Catch 22 most of the time.

To get some respect you have to be heard. To be heard you have to write music people want to play.

I have quite a bit of music that I consider to be work that I feel is good but have not been able to get it played.

Most of the music I write is what people want to listen to/play.

I feel Christian is talking on a grander scale than I could ever hope for.

[Deleted]

Well,Christian, I am rather reclusive, no visitors here for at least a year, so you can see that my position in society is not of great interest to me. I can say that social status is judged by the wrong things! The kind of car I drive, a Honda Fit Sports model and Old Ford Explorer, for example, is meaningless in this regard. Or should be. My marital status is also irrelevant. The size of my house, or whether I rent or own is of no concern. But such are the things people are judged on.

Concerning musical compositions, not many people care. Makes little difference if my music is good or bad. Hardly anyone will take the time to look at it and try it, being too busy and to wrapped up in their current activities.

The conservatories seem to be producing musicians, but that is the only segment of young people that seem to have any interest in music. Look around at a concert, and see how many people are under forty.

Even the pop music of the day is suffering, as it appears that video games are more important.

I often wonder why I continue to write music that won't be heard, and frequently consider giving it up. I gave up playing about twenty years ago because my style was completely out of favor. I still play privately, for my self and spouse, but since my mother died no one even asks me to play for them. I think maybe once since then I played a Mozart sonata for my youngest sister, but that is it.

I don't know if I have addressed you posting or not.

Richard

[Christian Natta]

First of all, I would like to thank you all for having written.
As for you Adrian, I appreciate what you do and always listen to your work you upload to the network.
As for what I express Kevin, maybe I'm not ambitious enough, just wanted to know if they were respected in their fields, and is a reality that this requires write what they want to hear.
And from messages of Joseph and Richard, I realize it's not really respect what I want, but it is always helpful, I realize that is the confidence in myself than I meet urged. Without confidence in myself I can not compose. I've been happy, I've had a hard time emotionally hundreds of times, but I've always written music.
Today in sorrow, loneliness and poverty, I've realized that I am losing confidence in me.

A big hug to all

Christian

[Deleted]

Don't think that no one will ever listen to your music. Write it with every intention that people will listen to it, in droves.

Only in this current time has there been perpetrated the lie that teenagers are the most important audience to which to appeal. That anything profound is crass and banal, because those inexperienced cannot relate to it. This is a deception by corporations so that they can take advantage of the young, and of those that are conceited, just as any con man puffs up the pride of a mark before taking them for everything they've got.

Such a state of affairs cannot endure forever, in all places, and eventually will revert to the common sense that characterized society in previous ages: artistic expression relies upon life experience for significance. The deeper the store of life experience upon which an audience can draw, the more profound art appeals.