288 | Max Richter on the Meaning of Classical Music Today

1634.73 - 1657.297 Sean Carroll

It sounds like an amazingly familiar kind of story, not just in music, but in art, literature, maybe even like science and politics, where there's some super successful paradigm, tonal music, and so successful that it just gets done to death and people react against it. And maybe they go too far reacting against it. So there becomes more room for experimenting in some perpendicular direction.