I agree.
I was never into Seuss .....
I read Golden Book encyclopedias and World Book and other encyclopedias like Britannica when I could get it
What was the one started with a C you could get after so many groceries at Ann Page.....?
Colliers....I looked it up...my mom got them all I devoured them
I read Nancy Drew too and I bought every Classics Illustrated I could find in the revolving rack at the local drugstore owned by old south Japanese early 1900s who had been there on that corner since the 1930s....
The old Landmark series of biographies and historical events
Robert louis Stevenson
Dickens
Defoe ...and Dumás and Hugo
We did fine before smart phones no question
I have a question considering your brimming ample brain AS.....CLASSSICAL MUSIC ....not breaking it down to baroque and classical and romantic and etc
Give me your top five in order please
Merry Christmas dear.
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My favorite books were those little pocket sized guides of insects, reptiles & amphibians, rocks & gems, leaves, whatever. Golden Guides? I don’t remember anymore. Anyway I’d devour those books.
You want some classical? (baroque) One of my favorites is Bach’s Bouree in D minor, which I really could play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtCzicjT4SI
and for sheer joy you can’t beat the Som Sabadell version of the mighty 9th:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBaHPND2QJg
You read Nancy Drew? :-)
I liked lots of different books, when I was little ( somethings never change )and also loved being read to.
Fairy tales, from all over the world, has been a life long passion, ancient Mythology too.And as I wrote in an earlier post, Victorian and Edwardian children's books, which were not written in a dumbed down fashion and still hold up well today.
Loved comic books too and devoured the Classic Comic books, Superman, Batman, and the Marvel Family. And then, at 10, I discovered MAD...when it was just a comic book that cost a dime.
My grandmother read me Dickens, Twain, and Dumas pere and Fils ( got through ALL of those books, by the time I was 10 1/2 ), which she began reading to me ( plus the Lamb Shakespeare ) when I was around 4. And this used to be considered pretty "normal" for a lot of kids, back then.
Hmmmmmmmmmm...classical music?
Well, my grandmother was a child prodigy pianist, so I heard her play, from the womb onwards and so was exposed to a gigantic swath of great music, played by a true virtuoso. I don't know if I can list my top ten in order, so I'll just give you 5 and two categories shall be lumped in genres.
1)Chopin 2)Liszt 3)Operettas ( with G&S leading the pack, of course, but also love Humperdink [his HANSEL AND GRETEL was a childhood favorite], Mozart [THE MAGIC FLUTE is great for kids], etc. ) 4) Opera ( my family always listened to LIVE FROM THE MET, when I was little) so I've always ( still do ) all of the old "chestnuts" and at 7, fell in live with TALES OF HOFFMAN! 5) Bach 6) Saint Sans 7) Beethoven
Ooooooooooooopps two over, sorry ( the two genres + the 5 should have been only 7 ), but I couldn't help it. LOL
All of the above were my childhood favorites ( from the age of 3-10 ) and yes, still are. Of course, I like other Classical stuff and a lot of other kinds of music too, which I am forever indebted to my parents and grandparents for exposing me to from birth and before. :-)
And a very Merry Christmas to you and yours!
P.S. What categories would you place Souza's marches ( my grandfather LOVED them ! ) and Stephen Foster stuff in?
Been listening to classical music regularly for a long time. Some favorite works by my favorite composers...
J.S. Bach, esp. Toccata and Fugue in F major, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Six Cello Suites, The Art of Fugue, A Musical Offering.
F.J. Haydn, any number of symphonies and string quarters. (He was the father of both). Most underrated composer, in my view.
L.V. Beethoven, esp. the late string quartets, Piano concertos #4 and #5, Piano sonata #23, Violin concerto (he only composed one), and the symphonies depending on my mood.
Igor Stravinsky, esp. Apollo, Orpheus, Symphony of Psalms, Concerto in D, Symphony in 3 Movements, The Soldier’s Story, Octet.
My favorite form is probably the string quartet. Aside from the Haydn and Beethoven mentioned above, fave SQs include those by Felix Mendelssohn, Alexander Borodin, Paul Hindemith, Sergei Prokofiev, and (esp.) Bela Bartok.
Preferably listened to on an audio system that includes vintage tube amps and large, efficient speakers by Altec, JBL, or Klipsch.