Discussions: Modern Classical Music
Impressionistic and Expressionistic music is an acquired taste to many. It was a breaking away from traditional musical composition and an embracing of the less popular. At the time it was viewed as mad and the composers who wrote in its style often were heavily criticized.
Read this brief article about modern music and see if you can formulate a reason of your own on why Impressionistic and Expressionistic music is so hard to truly understand.
Article: Audiences hate modern classical music because their brains cannot cope By Richard Gray.