As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

It is easy to write unthinking music.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.