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The tape player in my Jeep is broken. I have a CD player to install, but I haven't gotten around to it. So for the time being I am stuck with the radio. But 90% of the music on the radio sucks, which is fine, because I usually get my news off the radio in the car so I turn to a news station. But when that's done and I want to hear some tunes, I flip around and eventually find something I can tolerate. But Saturday night I left a wedding reception to pick up my son and bring him back with me. It was cold outside and there was nothing good on the radio so I tried out KBAQ (K-Bach), the classical station. Now I've never disliked classical music, and I even have a handful of classical CD's that make it into rotation once in a blue moon. But this time something clicked and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was an organ concierto George Friederich Handel. With my son in the back, the dry, car heater blowing, dressed in a suit and going back to the formal event to rejoin my wife, nothing could've been better than this music. Since then I've put the station into my everyday rotation and in many cases, it's the best thing I can find. So I guess I now have more than a casual interest in classical music.
I'll be able to elaborate on what it is that draws me to it more as I figure it out myself. But I was thinking this morning while I drove to work that one thing I like about it is that it does not insult me like so much pop music does. A composer worked very hard to write the music, according to rules and musical principles that have a history and a foundation, unlike 99.9% of popular music which is free floating gibberish, poorly arranged, and seriously lacking in anything that is great about music as art. It is somehow more fulfilling to sit and passively enjoy something that so much work has gone into, as opposed to hurting my ears and sense of taste with something that nothing went into but a desire to have groupies and sell out.
Of course you all already know that selling out is the ultimate opportunity/accomplishment in pop music.
But I digress... I have a Baroque CD with Vivaldi and Handel and Pachabel. I also have a Bach CD. As of now I think my interest lies mostly in the Baroque style. I enjoy it's structure and sentimentality. Handel's water music is nice, too. But there is so much. It's a whole new vista in musical exploration, something more to be grateful for.
I can already tell this is going to be hot thread...
I'll be able to elaborate on what it is that draws me to it more as I figure it out myself. But I was thinking this morning while I drove to work that one thing I like about it is that it does not insult me like so much pop music does. A composer worked very hard to write the music, according to rules and musical principles that have a history and a foundation, unlike 99.9% of popular music which is free floating gibberish, poorly arranged, and seriously lacking in anything that is great about music as art. It is somehow more fulfilling to sit and passively enjoy something that so much work has gone into, as opposed to hurting my ears and sense of taste with something that nothing went into but a desire to have groupies and sell out.
Of course you all already know that selling out is the ultimate opportunity/accomplishment in pop music.
But I digress... I have a Baroque CD with Vivaldi and Handel and Pachabel. I also have a Bach CD. As of now I think my interest lies mostly in the Baroque style. I enjoy it's structure and sentimentality. Handel's water music is nice, too. But there is so much. It's a whole new vista in musical exploration, something more to be grateful for.
I can already tell this is going to be hot thread...
(it's available if you look though)
