[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Classical Music Is for Everyone"

Everyone. Indeed.

[Hiddigeigei]

It is probably what you grew up with. When I was very young, my mother played the Metropolitan Opera on the radio nearly every Saturday, and I joined her in listening. She would tell me the plot. Our old one-sided windup Victrola records were mostly classical. A number of Gigli I remember plus instrumental. I never much cared for the popular singers of the day. Later I found some old-time American ballads that I liked, like “Oh Shenandoah.” The Norwegian singer Sissel has a nice version of it I like to listen with earphones to when my wife is on the phone or a conference call.

[minnesota_bound]

Aaron Copland 4 Dance Episodes from Rodeo - III. Saturday Night Waltz (HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu_Q9ijKx8c

[1Old Pro]

I like that movie with Ravel - Bolero, with the sound off. :)

[mewzilla]

Baroque is for everyone.

The rest is an acquired taste.

[MayflowerMadam]

Playing classical music on the piano is fun and challenging; it’s how I was trained. I admit I don’t particularly enjoy listening to it, though.

The old hymns from the 19th, and early 20th, centuries, and old-time gospel is what I prefer.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Much of the early use of classical music in radio, TV, and films was because it was easier and cheaper to use the music of old dead men than to hire new blood who could probably produce music no better. Thus the great theme from Richard Strauss's "A Hero's Life" opened "The Big Story", and the music of Rossini, Liszt, and Borodin carried "The Lone Ranger". The stirring finale of this piece by Rimsky Korsakov was used during the closing of one of the major early dramatic shows on TV......