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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Art and music: can non-intellectuals appreciate post-19th century music posted by tinear on March 11, 2011 at 10:59:41:
I just wanted to relate an experience I had with a fellow "audiophile" at work. He gravitates more towards the pop world (admires Shania Twain, etc.), but, because he's an audiophile, he has purchased some classical works, just by virtue of the fact that they came out on SACD, and so he comes to classical music by way of his audiophile interests.
One day, he told me that he had just bought (and listened to) the Telarc SACD of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony and Martinu's Symphony No. 2, with Paavo Järvi and the Cincinnati Symphony. I remember immediately thinking, "New World Symphony - great choice! That's a symphony that could really get him more interested in classical music - it's so heartfelt, who could fail to be moved by it?"
But his reaction completely surprised me: he was raving on and on about how great he found the Martinu Symphony! When I asked him how he liked the "New World" symphony, he said, "Oh, it was OK - a little on the corny side." So there you have it - it's extremely hard to predict how people are going to react to various styles of music in this day and age.
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Follow Ups
- Lots of great comments in this thread! - Chris from Lafayette 11:09:21 03/12/11 (4)
- RE: Lots of great comments in this thread! - tinear 18:56:12 03/12/11 (0)
- Probably the Goin' Home theme! nt - oldmkvi 11:35:11 03/12/11 (2)
- and/or he's old enough to remember the Finale from the Lone Ranger Show - vinyl phanatic 19:20:03 03/12/11 (1)
- RE: and/or he's old enough to remember the Finale from the Lone Ranger Show - Chris from Lafayette 15:21:56 03/15/11 (0)
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