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Originally Posted by dc_denizen
If Berlin is regaining its significance as an artistic mecca, it should be creating new, notable cultural producers on the par with those of the legendary years in the past: conductors like Furtwangler and Karajan, major symphonic composers like Brahms, moviemakers like Fritz Lang, architects like Walter Gropius, etc.
Which of these DJs or graffiti artists or guys in bear suits is on par with the figures in Berlins past, I wonder.
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Of course, we live in a different world, now. There are up and coming centers of world art: Moscow, Seoul, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Cairo, Istanbul, Mumbai, Kolkata, among others, each with well over 10,000,000 in their metro areas.
So, the question is relative. In terms of Europe, Berlin is becoming increasingly important.
As for the great composers that write in the classic European idiom, I think Japan has the greatest concentration today, followed by the US. Of course, in neither nation are significant compositions to be played only in front of a live audience- great classical music today is being written for anime, computer games, and, of course, for movie scores.