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In Reply to: RE: One way only for serious listening posted by hesson11 on March 27, 2015 at 07:08:00
At what age did you seriously begin listening to classical ?
I've tried but I just can't seem to enjoy it much.
I love rock, jazz, americana, and some big band. Not too much into current pop.
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That is, early post-college. I wasn't brought up with classical, in fact I wasn't brought up with much music at all. My parents weren't musically inclined to any genre and I heard nothing expect what was on AM radio and at church.
There is a story I tell:
One day on the bus returning from university I over heard a couple of ladies talking. One was bragging about her son, the doctor, (yes, I believe she was Jewis). One brag was that he was into classical music despite that he had never heard it as a child. I figured if the good doctor could learn to enjoy classical music as an adult, so could I.
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich
Hi Abe,
Actually, I started listening to classical music in college (about 35 years ago!). Up till then, it was nothing but Beatles, Stones, Traffic, Procol Harum, Dylan, James Taylor, CSNY, etc.
Then I took a course in music history. I learned that music was not just a succession of pleasing sounds. Lots of people had actually assembled symphonies, concertos, sonatas, etc. using building blocks made of themes, rhythms and things that you could follow much like you'd follow the sentences and paragraphs of a book. I was hooked. Since then, as I said, I just haven't found much in popular music to engage my interest, other than simply enjoying the tunes, largely as musical wallpaper. It no longer really engages my interest enough to focus on it.
-Bob
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