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In your writing you've explained very well how music has changed over the years.
But what of the future?
'I think the future of music will go on getting more amorphous.
This includes the classical music I was brought up on, jazz I think is very very
important, being an improvised, originally black music, which none the less
attains extraordinary levels of subtlety, and then there are
various kinds of pop music which of course have
now taken over: music means popular music. And we are called "classical",
if mentioned at all. But that is simply what
has happened. There's good, bad and indifferent in all these genres. And I
have tried, through my life, to decide what I think are the things that
matter.
Wilfrid Mellers at home in York. Photo © 2004 Keith Bramich
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'Seven tenths -- I won't say nine -- but a very considerable portion
of the music that gets accepted -- is probably not the music that is going to survive.
But, OK. Take a larger view. I don't think it matters. "God" will sort it out.
And this has always been the case. Even in Beethoven's day. You see,
truth wins through.'
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Very many happy returns, Professor Mellers, from all at Music & Vision, and thank you for all your writing.