I didn't grow up with an appreciation for classical music but just an observation while in school, I couldn't study and listen to rock or much else with driving guitar or drum rhythm, without my train of thought getting turned to mush, but classical music, I don't know why, really helped me find my groove and crank out the work?ÿ Just curious if anyone here listens to classical music, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart. If so do you have any favorite streaming services? Favorite composers? Sort of like beer I guess, when I was a kid I hated it, now I can't get enough. Maybe I've just evolved from cheap beer to an appreciation for good Cognac. I guess I just like both!
Carry on and have a great day.
Yes, same story for me.?ÿ Like beer--it's all good, just some's better.?ÿ I like Smetana and Dvorak (both Czech) and the Russians Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.?ÿ From Western Europe, I only really listen to Handel regularly.?ÿ The London Philharmonic performance of the Messiah is (IMHO) definitive.?ÿ I typically use Spotify or Youtube Music.
@frozennorth Excellent. I'll take a listen to those. Thank you.
I took art as an elective in grades 10 and 12; this was the end of the 60s, when "classic rock" was new.?ÿ The teacher had classical on all the time, which led to lots of grumbling.?ÿ However, I grew to like it, and it is now the background for most office tasks.?ÿ Once in a while I will listen to other things, but I start the day with WQXR, streaming from here: https://www.wqxr.org/?ÿ?ÿ Give it a try.?ÿ No cost, unless your guilt wins during a fund drive....
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@ken-salzmann That is funny in that was exactly what I was listening to when I wrote the original post.?ÿ
Listening to FrozenNorth's suggestion at the moment while I pour through The Practical Guide to Carlson Software Fundamentals. Takes the edge off a bit.
@williwaw?ÿ Nice to hear WQXR reaches from NY to AK.?ÿ
You may be too many time zones west for it to be practical, but if you happen to be listening at about 7:30 AM Eastern, you will catch The Morning Bach, a good way to get going.
Ken
Probably is not classical in the true sense, but I love all rock piano solos, especially Billy Powell with Skynard in "Tuesdays Gone" ?????ÿ
Not intending to hijack Mr. Williwaw's thread
I know its not classical music, but I occasionally listen to WPDH through their app on my phone. When I was in Juneau the local "Classic Rock" station had only about 15 actual classic rock tunes, it was mostly 80's & 90's (Particularly a lot of Bee Gees for some god awful reason)
I have a Pandora account. Can download anything I want. Works awesome.
Vivaldi, Hayden, Widor, Wagner, Bach (not just JS either) Mendelssohn, Bartok, Bezzini, etc etc etc etc...
Then go to Flamenco... Sabicas was the reigning king until Paco, and yeah.
Funny though....I can draft to all type of musicians, from these and all the others listed, on to Pantera,
But when it's like jazz, real jazz not that souless super technical or elevator jazz, but like Dave Brubeck and Paul Roland, or Dizzy Gillespie, Miles, Charlie Parker etc... I can't focus because I get into the lines of their flow, so I'm useless until I hit this button again....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i97OkCXwotE
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...also helps in rush hour gridlock.
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I do not listen as background but enjoy to see in person. For learning more about it I recomend the following.
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast (libsyn.com)
A nice podcast, available on multiple platforms.
A nice youtube channel, I could not see how to link the channel so I linked the site.
I held ticket packages in Seattle and Cleveland and plan trips to new cities around seeing their symphony, so far I have done Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Vancouver. Cleveland is by far the best I have seen and a great organization to boot.?ÿ They do a smart thing by making it free to bring guests under 18 and it shows with a slightly younger audience overall, once concern I have is about the form dying out due to lack of interest.?ÿ
I listen to KUSC, the classical station run by the University in its call letters.?ÿ We've lost all the other classical stations in this area.?ÿ The Bose radio I listen with is about two feet off my right ear.?ÿ Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. is the New York Metropolitan Opera live.
The waiting room at my childhood doctor's office played classical music all day long.?ÿI remember spending a lot of time there, and it made quite an impact on me. I credit a rocky start with the introduction to some of the most creative musical genius the world will ever know. Classical music for background noise is great for most dull computer tasks.
If you use Pandora, try these channels: Autumn Jazz and/or Cocktail Jazz.
Does Steely Dan count as classical music?
I prefer the term Orchestral Music to Classical and do not feel that works need to stand some centuries long test of time before being completely valid and accepted into the form and rotation.
I was at a Rachmaninoff performance a couple years ago and the woman sitting in the next row was kvetching about how they were playing to much "modern" music that season, as if one hundred years was not enough time to be proven. This is not to say that I like some of the more gimicky things done to lure in new audiences like another Star Wars night, but I appreciate that they have a place and purpose.?ÿ
There are many things that make attending live performances worthwhile but one from a work perspective is seeing teamwork, leadership and solo performance all come together.?ÿ
Not me - classical puts me to sleep. I generally have 60's - 80's Rock & Roll, Jazz Fusion, or Jazz blaring away - keeps my heart and brain going!
Don't do any drafting, but classical music is pretty much all I listen to.?ÿ Prefer baroque and romantic periods to the classical...and I'm a big fan of Ralph Vaughan Williams?ÿ
....?ÿ Prefer baroque and romantic periods to the classical...
Well now...what do we have here...
A true connoisseur....
Duly noted.
Fugue you.
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Almost any kind of music reduces my concentration on a task. I can often get away with it, but am more likely to make mistakes. Smooth jazz is the least distracting.
If it has words it's worse, even though I rarely can tell you what the words were after hearing them. I say when I'm mixing audio at a show that I hear every word but not one verse. The same is somewhat true when listening to the radio.
Does Ennio Morricone count as "classical"? If so, I do.
