Orchestras In Popular Music

[DiscoKat]

Just wondering if any of you guys think that orchestras will ever make a come back in popular music. It's been about 26 years or so since they have stopped using them... It's a shame to think that such beautiful music is gone forever...


I find popular music from the 1970's and late 1920's-early 1930's to be the best of the 20th century.. ironically they coincide with relatively liberal periods of history... Unfortunately both periods are hated by the conservative nuts who relish swing/rock crap from 1940's-50's and the rock crap 1980's ...so maybe we will have to wait until Americans start using their brains again ... if ever considering how uneducated and religiously fanatic our society has become ... what ever happened to secularism? Guess the brain-washing campaign of Reagan and Co. worked lol

[Bernie]

This is a loaded post in regards to the political rant at the very end of it. Please reply to this post ONLY in regards to the orchestra and avoid any name calling or heated political talk. Non-music related discussions should be taken to the Non-Music category of this forum. Thanks.

[Disco Funk]

I think the lack of orchestras in the last few decades has more to do with cost rather than the political interests of the buying public. It's expensive to employ a large number of people to play strings, especially if you want to get the best that you can buy. I'm guessing that even hiring out an orchestra for one recording session, like the Boston Pops for example, would be way too expensive compared to what you might recover in profits from the single. It's not the artist who pays for this directly. Usually its the record company that makes the investment, and since they are trying to get something from nothing to keep their bottom lines, we get a lot of re-hash simplistic formulaic nonsense that's been in the Top 40 for the last couple of decades.

Disco Funk