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Classical music is 300+ years old. I also love Opera as do my parents and grandparents. I think it is more about what gets played on the radio. The music is g
by sjg007 5y ago
Classical music is 300+ years old. I also love Opera as do my parents and grandparents.
I think it is more about what gets played on the radio. The music is good and new. That tricks our brain into pursuing it.
Eventually each genre finds its own classics that basically capture most of the attention.
- criddell 5y agoDo you think radio still matters?
- TheAdamAndChe 5y agoFor people who drive, yes. It does to me at least.
- criddell 5y agoMost of the time when I'm driving, I'm streaming music. I'd be okay if my next car had no radio as long as it has Android Auto or CarPlay.
- analog31 5y agoI find it super convenient to turn on one of the streaming radio stations such as WFMT in Chicago. It eliminates all of the organizational overhead of curating the music that I listen to, and it's good enough. I certainly hear a lot of stuff that I've never heard before. Also, re streaming, I have a throttled cell phone service, so my data usage isn't unlimited.
- criddell 5y agoI don't have unlimited data either, but have found that streaming doesn't seem to use up all that much data. I think it's something like 100MB / hour.
- drewcoo 5y agoIs the classical you all listen to all "top 40" "oldies" from folks like Bach and Beethoven or do you listen to anything reasonably new? I'm talking 20th or 21st century classical. Say John Adams or Kaija Saariaho, maybe? That's the classical music that I enjoy that my mom can't stand. And that is the difference this is talking about.
- analog31 5y agoThe new stuff. My mom introduced me to Hindemith and Bartok.
- eplanit 5y ago"I'm talking 20th or 21st century classical" I can't consider anything so recent to be "classical" -- it might imitate the style of older music, but to call that 'classical' makes the word basically meaningless, or that it's only a style (however that would be defined). To me, 'classical' means that it has survived and thrived across _many_ years.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> . To me, 'classical' means that it has survived and thrived across _many_ years. Classical is either all of Western art music or a particular style within that body whose original heyday was between that of Baroque and Romantic; creating a third definition doesn’t aid in communication.
- bryanrasmussen 5y ago>To me, 'classical' means that it has survived and thrived across _many_ years. I believe that would normally be referred to as a classic.
- kbelder 5y agoThe music is classic? Yes. Classical music? No!
- SyzygistSix 5y ago
- pmoriarty 5y ago"it is more about what gets played on the radio. The music is good and new" But is it good? That's a matter of taste.