What are you doing today?

[gwand]

In retrospect, I am amazed how many snippets of “serious” music was incorporated into cartoons of my childhood. And of course there is Rossini’s William Tell overture. But some of the modern renditions of Baroque operas, especially those featuring counter tenors imitating castratos of old, do sound like Bugs.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Here's basically what I'm doing today.

 

[Oldspartan]

I guess I am a bit low bro in my music tastes. I will not turn my nose up at classical, BUT, I sit here happily enjoying The Seventh Sojourn by the Moody Blues. The was preceded with some Clapton and will be followed by Sgt Pepper.

 

[GaryE]

I first heard Bach as the opening theme to a religious program that was on TV. I had to suffer through the program waiting for the hockey games, but I liked that theme as a kid. There were so many 'classical' pieces I was exposed to as a kid in weird ways. Bugs was a good one.

I think it helps if we hear music styles young, if we're going to 'get' them later in life. I had a grade 7 teacher who played us Nigerian highlife in music class. I hated it at frst, but then it got interesting and later it was a doorway into west African music styles I love now. I heard tons of country growing up, and that didn't stick. My Dad played lots of Big Band records, and my hippy older cousin played blues and rock when I was around. Those did stick. My Aunt was a rockabilly rebel type, and I love that stuff now. She also played a lot of jump blues, another favourite style from before I was born.

Celtic music came up through the floor from the elderly lady downstairs, who would have Quebecois fiddlers and accordion players over a few times a year.

It all hits later in life, if you end up as a music freak. The 2 recordings that stopped me dead in my tracks when I first heard them were the first Clash record, which sounded like nothing I had ever heard before, and Yo yo Ma's Bach solo cello concertos. But everything was set up by things I'd heard earlier.

 

[lottabubbles]

I think it helps if we hear music styles young, if we're going to 'get' them later in life. I had a grade 7 teacher who played us Nigerian highlife in music class. I hated it at frst, but then it got interesting and later it was a doorway into west African music styles I love now. I heard tons of country growing up, and that didn't stick. My Dad played lots of Big Band records, and my hippy older cousin played blues and rock when I was around. Those did stick. My Aunt was a rockabilly rebel type, and I love that stuff now. She also played a lot of jump blues, another favourite style from before I was born.

when I was young my mom would go shopping and take me with her on the bus to the city. heard the elevator music and liked it a lot.
flash forward, all of a sudden I got into light jazz. don't know how it happened but I'm blaming Barney Miller show.

 

[GaryE]

I knew someone liked that music. You put an avatar to that!

 

[gwand]

I guess I am a bit low bro in my music tastes. I will not turn my nose up at classical, BUT, I sit here happily enjoying The Seventh Sojourn by the Moody Blues. The was preceded with some Clapton and will be followed by Sgt Pepper.

Don’t get me wrong. I love those groups too. I was at the concert the first time Cream and The Who played in the US. I saw The Beatles at Shea Stadium. In high school I would regularly go to the Filmore East on the weekends for concerts. In the village, I would go see Jimi Hendrix when he was known as Jimmy James, before he changed his name, and was discovered. I took in Jethro Tull, Jefferson Airplane, Janice Joplin, Velvet Underground concerts among many others. I played in a rock band from middle school until I graduated high school. We perform at School dances and city block parties. You probably never heard of us, but we were called Blues Train. L O L. I still listen to a lot of these old albums. In the modern era I am a big fan of Radiohead. But in college I also fell in love with Baroque and Classical era music. I will admit that opera is an acquired taste. But it can become extremely addicting. The music is so powerful it can make the most foolish libretto bring you to tears of sorrow.

By the way, if you have not seen it yet, I highly recommend the new film about Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown.