In Reply to: Can you remember the first piece of classical music that left an impression and how old were you? posted by Frank Waller on December 4, 2002 at 08:02:46:
Another early one around this time was Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers" from the Nutcracker. It was the theme of a radio serial here back in the 1940's.At age 13 the school introduced me to Grieg's A minor Concerto which I scraped & saved up for, buying it one 78 rpm record at a time from a sympathetic record store lady. In those days our school had regular assemblies each morning and part of the ritual was to hear snippets of the classics. I can still remember my first exposure to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony in that context. Such a shame schools no longer support classical music that way -> a general ignorance to this sublime form of emotional experience. Unfortunately the modern stuff just plain irritates me and puts me on edge.
John
Peace at AA
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- "Song of the Volga Boatsmen" via an Edison cylinder at age 9 - John C. - Aussie 12:45:36 12/04/02 (0)