Generic music styles run their course, are lauded in retrospect, and decline.
While virtuoso performers are always welcome, the music with which they are associated, having exhausted its original excitement, tends toward falsity, hollow meaning, and repetition in various guises, from the ironic to the improbably dramatic.
Then, listener and composer must gain the ground of integrity, or give way to the mediocre and mundane. Thus, find the essential nature of the creative will.
While virtuoso performers are always welcome, the music with which they are associated, having exhausted its original excitement, tends toward falsity, hollow meaning, and repetition in various guises, from the ironic to the improbably dramatic.
Then, listener and composer must gain the ground of integrity, or give way to the mediocre and mundane. Thus, find the essential nature of the creative will.
