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DUI I also discovered Classical music the same way you did via Progressive and Art Rock

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In Reply to: RE: I am sorry, I have no other Bartok. And am functionally posted by Duilawyer on December 13, 2007 at 13:19:16

mainly Emerson, Lake and Palmer's versions of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Prokofiev's Dance of the Evil God and Pagan Monsters from the Scythian Suite. When I purchased the original orchestral versions of those I was in musical heaven.

I owe a huge debt to ELP for helping me discover Classical music which until then I thought was all academically boring music such as that composed by Mozart and other composers whose music makes me want to cringe. But with no guidance or at the worst the wrong guidance from the Classical musical established recommending even more academically boring classical music. Their excuse is I have to "learn to like" these boring classical works. I have tried for decades to learn to like the symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, and other so-called greats. I have learned if I don't love a piece on the first hearing I will never like it, never! From the very first note I loved The Rite of Spring, Petrouchka, The Firebird, Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on Bald Mountain, Scythian Suite, and tons of others I discovered the hard way by buying blindly. Now we have the Internet and streaming audio samples so no one longer needs to buy blindly. I have always hated the music played on Classical radio stations and I still do!

After nearly thirty years of purchasing Classical music haphazard I now have a strategy I look for what I call "Power" Classical orchestral music and I listen to streaming audio samples before buying. And now that I have nearly every format under the sun I no longer feel the need to buy a classical work just because it is on SACD.

I've put together a list "The Basic Power Orchestral Repertoire or Classical music for folks who don’t like Classical music" This is the perfect tool for additional exploration. I love all kinds of music from Jazz, Blues, Rock to World music but I dislike most traditional classical music with a purple passion however Power classical music is my absolute favorite music above all others.

Music is Love,
Teresa

Basic Power Orchestral Repertoire (Open in New Window)

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