The present new classical music scene has a problem with the past. Pierre Boulez said that one was “irrelevant” after WWII if one did not write serial music. Although this approach has now been largely abandoned, it would still seem that those composers who wrote “in the tradition” have been forgotten, neglected, or just considered irrelevant. Most of the trendy music of today is post-minimalist, totalist, neo-folk/ classical, or neo-pop/classical. It is attempting to find an audience among the general population who now have no knowledge of, and no interest in, the classical tradition. As a result, it is very much dumbed-down, providing now more an experience of entertainment rather than art.