Who's a modern Bach or Beethoven?

[javasaurus]

What is the nature of 21st century orchestral music? Yes, John Williams does a masterful job of scoring films, but is there any distinctive sound for non-programatic "classical" music in the current millenium?

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[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the input. So it's not my imagination that we are fairly devoid of truely modern orchestral music (which makes your statement about the beginning of this century being tied to last century a little problematic -- little there to tie to!). I did find an interesting web site (www.numusic.org) which promotes itself as modern "classical" music. Also, looking at this wikipedia page was also helpful.