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[soulsource]

The last few forts I've built always had the same phenomenon. Just after a tavern is built, the socialize activity branches into poetry recitals, musical performances, dances and storytelling with a comparable probability, but as time passes, musical performances and dances get less and less frequent, and after some years there is basically only poetry left, with some storytelling in between.
Is this a general trend, or does this just happen to my forts? Is there anything one needs to do to build a suitable environment for musicians?

[snow dwarf]

Music needs dance floor and instruments stored in bags. If you've got those, than it must be just how it is. Might be also because your dwarves don't have time to attend to the tavern?

[Mostali]

I second the suggestion that it's probably time related.  As your fortress grows, there are more and more trivial tasks to attend to.  If a group starts a dance and one dwarf decides to go collect that Pig Tail that just sprouted then the dance stops and the remainder of the dwarves start socializing from scratch.

[soulsource]

The instruments and lack of space were my first guess, so, in the last fort, the main room of the tavern just has a few tables/chairs at the walls, and is completely empty in the middle. There are also two stationary instruments in the corners, and 15 or so hand held instruments in boxes...

I'm now in the process of setting up a second dining hall, this time with even more free space, but probably it's really just that one of the dwarfs who should participate in the dance/music performance decides to wander off to grab a sock or whatever...