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Hej, I would like to present my new composition. It was not so easy to find the pianist, who could play it. But I suceeded and found a very talented Anna, who played it exactly as I wanted. Maybe for some of you it will bring some peace or reminescence into the hearts. Kind wishes, Tomasz

This is a "John Williams" fan thread. You watch lol I'll break the mold early, by posting some Harry Gregson-Williams

First, and last warning. Do not do this, I am not insulting you nor your music and I'm tired you always doing the same thing. Instead of using arguments, you just go for personal attacks. They're different things for different people. There's plenty of people out there who think Rach's concerto is dreadfully boring and they'd rather do something else. In fact, I'd say this is the state of classical music in the west in general, it's on the decline. And the video does address this pretty well, specially with the example concerning the sex pistols. The idea that anyone should just accept, without question, that X or Y are just "masterpieces" and Z composer is just a "genius" really rubs me the wrong way. I say let things fall where they may, if these things are so genius and those masterpieces are so great, then why are people like you so afraid of letting people make up their own mind on them? None of it has anything to do with Marx, at all. In fact I'd say it's quite the opposite, since the video talks about the importance of people's individual circumstances and their choices, very much something communism doesn't like (the bit about China is about the disaster of Mao's cultural revolution and how it destroyed the western classical music being made, caused people to kill themselves or get tortured, etc.) But since you're so afraid of watching it, I guess you'll never know huh? I'm 100% for people's freedom to do what they want to do, including criticizing supposed musical "masterpieces," or having different tastes or ideas. I'm both on Johnny Rotten's side AND on Babbitt's side, in that the "mainstream" opinion isn't automatically rule of law, no matter what anyone says. I'm a skeptic, I need to see and judge things for myself and I don't just buy anyone's ideas at first glance, no matter what kind of "authority" says them. I know you're an authoritarian, so obviously you don't like this, but one of the fundamental pillars of our modern western world is the idea of freedom, both of action and of thought. And, for all the disdain for Marx you both have, you still love using Ricardo's "Labor theory of Value" (LTV) that's so central to his economic analysis, when it comes to music. However, we know that this is false since effort does not equal value. You can spend all your life writing a piece, or practicing Rach's 3rd concerto, but that doesn't automatically mean it has any value. You guys are all about value, specially cultural value, but in reality it depends on what people actually do, what they like and what actually gets any attention. And it turns out that any given pop star or rock band (in other words, the cultural mainstream) is -VASTLY- more successful and popular than any mainstay in the classical repertoire. A songwriter can outclass Mozart, Beethoven AND Rachmaninov in sales and popularity, many many many times over, and we see it all the time. We've seen it for decades now. So they're more valuable to people, despite the music being "less effort" to make. You can then say that the classical warhorses are "timeless," but are they really? I mean as the institutions that prop them up slowly die due to people not engaging with classical music due to many of the points the video makes (one of which being classical music being hard to access with people of low income, as well as the idea that classical music is only for the rich or "the elite."), we may find that just like thousands upon thousands of composers have been lost to time, so will eventually these "geniuses", if people ultimately don't find what they did valuable and rather engage with other things. Classical music is a tiny niche, that's slowly getting smaller and smaller. That's also one major point of the video, and the point is discussing what can be done so that more people can get into classical music. Saying that their tastes are garbage because they don't appreciate Mozart does NOT motivate people to listen to Mozart, it only causes disdain and apathy.