@noldar12 said:
To ask a more positive question: How does one go about encouraging the recovery of what has been largely lost? How does one encourage others to actually take the time and effort to learn and/or master a particular craft?
Two things:
a) If and when in a position of power you never hire anybody sub-standard, anybody that is a disgrace to the profession. This way you are instrumental in the professional extermination of as many as possible gangrenous organisms.
b) As individuals we cannot do too much other than bare our souls here and wherever we can. Lest we forget, extremely few will ever be able to master a particular craft. However, we must keep encouraging people to discover craft to begin with, so they can learn to recognize it, or more importantly in this case, to recognize the absence thereof! This can only occur through academic education (or self-education PROVIDED one knows where to look and what to study). These days with piracy it is that much easier (I HATE piracy). YouTube is a pirate's treasure trove of great music. Music that when heard, will burst people's minds and vistas wide open; to the point where they think back to the time they thought Hans had absolutely anything musical to offer and chuckle at themselves...
We must keep hammering that Hans' clones and the so-called "Epic" crap, do not comprise "new" aesthetics that we resist. That it is NOT a matter of taste! They represent NO novelty in aesthetics, NO new school of orchestral writing, or timbral experimentation. Youngsters must realize that EVERY SINGLE PITCH OR FILTER TWEAK by either camp is either crass, old news, embarassingly rudimentary, or a combination thereof. There is only a single way for youngsters to realize this for sure, and that is only through familiarity with 20th century music history and its repertoire.
I'll say it again. I don't care what droves of people do with their computers locked inside their bedroom, and what they think they are accomplishing. However, I am astounded at the number of mouse-centaurs who consider themselves - or on their way to becoming orchestral music professionals, while knowing so very little about music! Of course, who am I to talk when even Hans' clones make more money than I do, and get bigger awards...