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To: SamAdams76
So why turn to drugs? That really confuses me.

I agree. I cannot understand why anyone needs drugs in a world that contains Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major. I can get high just sitting and listening to it. Surely there are other things - music, art, books, movies - that would affect other people in the same way that music affects me. To me, drugs look like a quick way to get something that's better anyway if you earn it.

36 posted on 03/08/2014 8:47:47 AM PST by JoeFromSidney (Book: Resistance to Tyranny. Buy from Amazon.)
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To: JoeFromSidney
Same here. There are many classical pieces that make me feel good about life including the Trumpet Concerto of Haydn's that you referenced. The Brandenburgs by Bach and Vespers of 1610 by Monteverdi just to name a couple more. Amazing how music composed hundreds of years ago can still be so uplifting today. Music by Justin Beiber and Snoop Dogg - not sure that will stand the test of time quite as well!

Classical music is definitely an acquired taste but if you choose a well-known piece and give it time with repeated listenings, it will grow on you and you will quickly explore other pieces.

For me, it was Beethoven's Ninth Symphony that brought me into classical music. I listened to that CD over and over again in the car and then it just hit me like a ton of bricks one rainy morning. Within a month, I had a car full of classical CDs. This was back in the early 1990s.

47 posted on 03/08/2014 9:15:36 AM PST by SamAdams76
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