Classical Music Is for Everyone

First Things ^ | August 18, 2023 | George Leef

[EvilCapitalist]

TTIUWOM(this thread is useless without music) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzF3ubtimGE

[EvilCapitalist]

Here’s some more for Strauss fans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKGtwNZfd8k

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I fell in love with classical (Longhair) music as a kid. I was supposed to laugh at the cartoon antics on screen but I found I liked the music!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanks for posting that! I have the article open in another window and I am going to listen to all of the pieces listed! :)

We have a classical radio station/show similar to that, and I always enjoy when people make requests.

When I was a youngster of 20 or so, I discovered Jean-Pierre Rampal, and his beautiful flute pieces. My favorite recording of his is ‘Claude Bolling’s Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano.’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-_QOlCJUek

[yuleeyahoo]

Everything I learned about classical music I learned from cartoons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5-fP4QpL0A

[circlecity]

Mozart’s symphony 25 in G minor is really mind blowing. It’s on my workout playlist.

[EvilCapitalist]

Another favorite of mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Z7n7IwQjs

[thecodont]

I fell in love with classical (Longhair) music as a kid. I was supposed to laugh at the cartoon antics on screen but I found I liked the music!

The author references "Scheherezade" in the article. I was exposed to that wonderful work through a TV cartoon called "Shazam" (two kids from Maine encounter a genie) in the late 1960s.

[broken_clock]

Despite playing in my high school concert band and having an appreciation for classical music I didn’t know many artists. One day I heard on the radio wonderful music but I missed hearing clearly the artist. Armed with what I thought was something close to the name I searched my local Tower Records for the artist TacoBell…

Yes, and there he was Pachelbel and his Canon in D Major!

[Allegra]

😂😂 Love that!

[Allegra]

My parents were both music lovers. They liked everything from classical to Broadway, standards, jazz, the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel and other softer rock.

Whenever I heard a classical piece as a kid/teenager that peaked my interest, my parents could identify it for me and usually had a record of it.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano

I used to have a cassette of that, way back when, until it wore out. Just ordered a CD. Thanks for reminding me about a long-ago favorite.

[alternatives?]

The author was one of us nerds in high school.

[Paddyboy]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dg2iPEKzqwo&pp=ygUhb2xkIGFuZCBsb3N0IHJpdmVycyB0b2JpYXMgcGlja2Vy

[Taffini]

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[crusty old prospector]

I learned classical music from Bugs Bunny and Friends.

[sasquatch]

My first serious girlfriend in college was a music major studying composition. She had to learn to play every instrument imaginable. I learned an awful lot about classical music from her. Was one of the most valuable life lessons ever.

[crusty old prospector]

I found that one after watching Amadeus.

[combat_boots]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-babies-ex/