When two guitars are better than one

John Borstlap says:

Karol Beffa belongs to the new generation of French composers who have left the totalitarian ideologies of Boulezbianism behind and pick-up tonality, expression, craft – qualities of what still exists of music that has survived the rages of time and still ‘speaks’ to contemporary listeners – in short: tradition, not as a set of outdated rules, but as a living organism freely interpreted according to individual tastes and capacities.

Other such composers in France:

Richard Dubugnon (he is actually french/swiss, but well….)

Guillaume Connesson (who wrote a successful opera – Les Bains Macabres – that sounds like written 100 years ago and is modern again)

Thierry Escaich (writing very colourful and virtuosic orchestral works but is mainly an organ composer)

Ives Castagnet (who has nothing to do with Spanish folklore but writes fantastic choral music in the wake of still very successful composer Maurice Duruflé)

How come? Boulez tried to ‘restore’ serious new music through politics and power, but failed because his ideas were modernist. The practice of classical music life is not modernist in nature, i.e. ideological, but commercial (which has is own problems).