Posted on 05/27/2016 7:50:13 AM PDT by bigbob
If you had told 12-year-old me that one day I would be able to listen to pretty much any song I wanted to on demand and also pull up the lyrics as fast as I could type the artist’s name and part of the title into a text box, I would have a) really hoped you weren’t kidding and b) would have wanted to grow up even faster than I already did.
The availability of music today, especially in any place with first world Internet access is really kind of astounding. While the technology to make this possible has come about only recently, the freedom of music listening has been fairly wide open in the US. The closest we’ve come to governmental censorship is the parental advisory sticker, and those are just warnings. The only thing that really stands between kids’ ears and the music they want to listen to is parental awareness and/or consent.
However, the landscape of musical freedom and discovery has been quite different in other corners of the world, especially during the early years of rock ‘n roll. While American teens roller skated and sock-hopped to the new and feverish sounds of Little Richard and Elvis Presley, the kids in Soviet Russia were stuck in a kind of sonic isolation. Stalin’s government had a choke hold on the influx of culture and greatly restricted the music that went out over the airwaves. They viewed Western and other music as a threat, and considered the musicians to be enemies of the USSR.
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What is music?
Do Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Brahms exist any more?
The second short video includes excerpts of Russian folk and classical music that was shared in this way, so I’d say the lengths people go to in order to preserve music shows all genres will always be in demand.
Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out.
Huh? More people than ever before can listen to any music they want to listen to.
Plenty of Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Brahms, etc. on Youtube. Check it out sometime.
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But this article doesn’t mention them.
They did have Leonid Kogan and David Oestrakh. Who could want any more?
How about Debussy?
You asked, “Do Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Brahms exist any more?”
All I did was say yes.
Anything you can whistle.
Do Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Brahms exist any more?
Not only exist but are more available then ever in a variety of ways.
Bach was a big influence on Gary Brooker of Procul Harum.
And check out the Jethro Tull version of Bouree.
Or Jeff Beck’s Bolero.
Emil Gilels, Sviatoslav Richter, Mili Rostropovich, David Oistrakh, Leonard Kagan had something to do with music in Russia in the 1950’s.
But of course not for the clueless.
Svartalfiar has just informed that Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Brahms, were not played in Russia in the 1950’s.
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