why classical music, art and drama are getting extinct?

Question

what is happening to present civilization?

Answer 1

They're not - but the civilisation is declining because (a) people are too busy earning enough to live, or to buy far more than they need (a) TV has displaced family conversation (c) people wander around with pocket radios, ipods/mp3s or mobile phones stuck in their ears and see nothing (d) kids listen to beat-up repetitive wallpaper musak and don't listen to real music (e) most people's literacy is so low they can't be bothered to read "old" books - because they don't know what the words mean and can't be bothered to look them up (which might explain the spelling on "Answers" (f) confusing the radio and TV news for information, and the "shock-jocks" for informed comment, most people have the attention span of gnats (g) too many people have such dull lives they need horror movies and action dramas or extreme sports to get their blood moving as far as their necks, let alone their brains (g) politicians and others deride anyone who thinks (especially critically) as elitist (h) kids fall for the morons who tell them that actually learning to play anything except the drums and an electric guitar (or an ipod) is useless and "sissy" or whatever the latest word is ... and so it goes on. By the way, "getting" means obtaining - I reckon the word you meant was "becoming" or "going". As the poet said "Getting and spending we lay waste our powers" (and that was in the 19thC!) But there's still many people who value art etc. Even in Melbourne, more people go to the Art Gallery than to the football, even though the dreaded "footie" occupies more than one-third of the evening news reports!

Answer 2

They are not getting extinct. The thing is that there's a gap growing between high culture and popular culture, and the popular culture gets plenty of media coverage. Otherwise, this gap is nothing new; it's there for at least two or three centuries.

I don't like what is happening to our civilisation either, but this issue is much more complex than your art question. A loss of values? Of common sense? A loss of the sense of hierarchy of values? (See, for example, how a babbling blondie girlie jumping on the stage is much more present in the media than all the classical concerts. One hundred years ago, she would have sung at some local feast.). But again, much more than art is at stake.

Answer 3

Gustav Holst: Invocation For Cello and Orchestra. This is on the Naxos CD label. Also, Holst's Song Of The Night, on The Wandering Scholar CD, Chandos Records. Both are not well known, and are fairly moving but not actually upsetting. Another piece is The Swan by Camille Saint Saens. It is a moving gentle peace, and not upsetting. Try also The Dove, by Ottorino Respighi, from The Birds (Gli Uccelli). Try also some of the music by Turlough O'Carolan, as he composed a few sad pieces.

Answer 4

Classical music art and drama were never more popular in the world than they are at the present moment.In past times they were the preserve of the rich and educated but with the advent of first radio and then television they became within the reach of all,and have in creased in popularity

Answer 5

Classical people are probably becoming extinct.

Answer 6

People are getting dumber, and learning how to BS without discovering the finer things in life. At least we have yahoo answers...

Answer 7

We are slowly devolving into barbarism. Since discipline is inevitable, at the point where we no longer have any ourselves, it will be provided by our conquerors.

Answer 8

Brittney and others like her have destroyed civilization as we know it.

Answer 9

....because it is a conscious effort to make man null & void, consumerist and send them back to "dog eats dog" position.Today's people have no leisure, no time to cultivate their inner-self, they only jostling to climb the ladder.

Answer 10

The corruption that sin brings...