Can you get everyone to like classical music?

[Thomas savage]

But I'm still not eating dose damn cranberries!

Ah, I knew there was bound to be upsetting childhood memories behind all this

You tried the cranberries with your thanksgiving turkey??

 

[Sal1950]

Ah, I knew there was bound to be upsetting childhood memories behind all this

You tried the cranberries with your thanksgiving turkey??

It was so traumatic, now every time I see a cranberry I shutter and have flashbacks to the carnage.

 

[Thomas savage]

It was so traumatic, now every time I see a cranberry I shutter and have flashbacks to the carnage.

 

[Sal1950]

Fill your hands you -------------------

 

[Nightlord]

Say someone is buying you a pair of music concert tickets; any price, any concert. What music genre would you pick?
Rolling Stones? Rap music concert, Opera Classical Ballet, Orchestral Classical, Choral and Organ, Punk, Metallica, Beyonce, Celine Dion, Iggy Pop, ...?

The most expensive music concert tickets cost $10,000+ (each), you can have two (for you and your wife), any band/orchestra you like, and anywhere in the world (hotel and airfare all included, paid off). Where are you going, Broadway in New York, Jazz club in San Francisco, Monaco, Paris, London, Vienna, North Korea, ...where?

Well, I don't think the rules would let anyone give away tickets, but disregarding that aspect for the sake of argument then I'd pick 'Last night of the Proms" @ Royal Albert Hall

 

[RayDunzl]

 

[Sal1950]

But he's a Service Dog !

 

[Cosmik]

A prime example of neither audience nor orchestra being the slightest bit interested in the music. Both are there for some sort of social occasion with the bland, anodyne classical music as nothing more than a virtuous backdrop. Both audience and orchestra are relieved by the dog's arrival as a break in the tedium.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

A prime example of neither audience nor orchestra being in the slightest bit interested in the music. Both are there for some sort of social occasion with the bland, anodyne classical music as nothing more than a virtuous backdrop. Both audience and orchestra are relieved by the dog's arrival as a break in the tedium.

Yup. Prague is one of our favorite cities for good music but there are signs everywhere for nightly performances of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by the same 2-3 groups every night of the week. Real dogs.

 

[Nightlord]

Everyone loves classical music... and always bring their instruments with them, this is from my local mall:

 

[Wombat]

Reverse thinking. Can we get classical music aficionados to adopt @BillG preferences, for example. Refer 'What are we listening to now' thread.

Cut the proselytising and simply enjoy what you like.

 

[LTig]

This just leaves me cold (it can be any Mozart - I just typed in a random number):

I could probably tell you what it is I like about the Vaughan Williams. The Mozart just seems to be "going through the motions"; 'showing off'. I feel *nothing* when listening to it, except "When is this going to stop?".

2.5 years late, but maybe not too late: Try Ave Verum and Requiem.

 

[Vincent Kars]

Carla Bley

Try this one, reminds me of Conlon Nancarrow but he wrote for player piano, she (and he) do it manual
Major by Carla Bley

 

[Vincent Kars]

Personally I don't understand why people don't like classical

Even modern classical is great:

 

[RayDunzl]

Personally I don't understand why people don't like classical

No dance floor?

 

[Celty]

I do have an affinity for classical, though even worse in the eyes of many, I love opera! BTW if you like classical at all, be sure to watch the Amazon series "Mozart in the Jungle". It's enough fun that I bet it has introduced quite a few to classical.

 

[Daverz]

2.5 years late, but maybe not too late: Try Ave Verum and Requiem.

No need to apologize for the Haffner Serenade, which is one of Mozart's most appealing works.

 

[Cortes]

Personally I don't understand why people don't like classical

Even modern classical is great:

It might be related to education and age. I never had formal musical education, and that underexposures to classic music and overexposures to pop/commercial music. I'm trying to componseate that with my 4 y/o kid, whom I take to violin lessons.

I've always loved music. However I've been always transitioning, as a teeneager I loved POP, the hits were fantastic, later discovered the ROCK, later settled with Jazz, female voices y some electronic music for many years. Now I'm getting stuck with classic, mainly with female opera, I'm liking it more and more. I'm happy because I know there is a whole world for me to discover. Related to this forum, there is something about classic that restricts it a lot: it requires a good place to listen, you need to feel its dynamical range to enjoy it more. With most of the rest of the music you are done with some headphones.

 

[Sal1950]

Personally I don't understand why people don't like classical

It doesn't speak to life experiences.
Steve Goodman wrote this for David Allan Coe,
It was crowned The Perfect County And Western Song and gets sung nightly at gin-mills all over the world.

"Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got run over by a damned old train"

 

[Daverz]

It doesn't speak to life experiences.
Steve Goodman wrote this for David Allan Coe,
It was crowned The Perfect County And Western Song and gets sung nightly at gin-mills all over the world.

"Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison

I don't think I have the life experiences to appreciate that.