
Cameron W. answered 04/26/16
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Music Education for the 21st Century
Simple answer (False) Now keep in mind this question is being addressed from the perspective of music composition and production point of view. Beginning in the 90s and continuing to the present the "traditional" film score has been replaced by the popular song which does two things. 1) It increased the mass appeal of the film initially, important because the studios can no long count on the fat foreign residuals, so the film has to gross big up front. 2) It drastically reduces the shelf life of a film. Literally speaking there are 4 maybe 5 orchestral film composers still working in LA and the number of sound stages capable of recording a full-score motion picture has been reduced from 5 to 2 and those are both on life support. So it has come down to making as much money as fast as possible, period. Case in point that horrible abortion of a "Star Wars" film Disney tried to make...that had nothing to do with the grand theme of the Star Wars saga. It was just a bunch of cute little scenes put together in a barely coherent pastiche that even the great John Williams had a hard time making musical sense of.
The principle product of today's film industry is money --- can you imagine someone trying to pitch The Matrix to a modern studio exec lawyer.
Again, since we are approaching this from a, largely, musical perspective. The two most successful, non-electronic composers working today are Ron Jones and Walter Murphy who have a lavish staff and a 90 piece orchestra to work with every work to score Family Guy...which I happen to love...but it's hardly a sweeping narrative.
I hope that sort of answered the question.....