Jan 252010
Through performing, music education and electronic media, the San Francisco Symphony and I strive to make classical music accessible to all. How has classical music impacted your life?
Through performing, music education and electronic media, the San Francisco Symphony and I strive to make classical music accessible to all. How has classical music impacted your life?
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Classical music provided me with an escape from growing up poor in the mean streets of the inner city. Through an arts program at my grammar school that allowed certain grades to attend concerts performed by our local symphony orchestra, I was first introduced to Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. I remember being emotionally transfixed by the virtuosity of the 1st movement in a way that startled me at first, and then left me breathlessly perplexed. How could music do this, and why wasn’t anyone I knew hip to it? The 2nd movement, delicately simple while hauntingly beautiful made me cry. I was embarassed with so many strangers around me, but there wasn’t a thing I could do but sit there and let the tears flow. Maybe the music had touched the pain I couldn’t let go of until then for the beloved father I had lost, maybe it had given me permission to grieve the death of Dr. King and the promise of hope that died with him, or maybe it was just providing me a respite from being a little black girl living constantly in the eye of a storm. I don’t know what.
I do know, however, that to this day, listening to Brahms, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Chopin (his magnificent Etude in A Flat Major) and so many others transports me beyond my current situation, whatever it is, and assures me that “this too will pass.”
I am grateful for discovering the soul that is classical music.
Classical music has a secret. It opens the channels to obtain spiritual energy. The lives of the musicians/composers add to the intrigue.
If you are looking for music I have 20 songs for sale music and lyric. The rights are expired so i can only send to you the notary signed note I have as a testimate to the music I have in my possession. A true artist will know what to do with them originally written for piano.
Classical musicians keep up the good work!
For people who enjoy classical music, I believe it’s most important contribution is making listeners feel deep inner emotions such as joy and beauty that are sadly missing in our every day emotionally sterile lives. For people who do not really care for classical music, I believe that these same emotions are still successful communicated to people when classical music is presented along with visual images in films or on television.
Classical is a BIG part of my life. I grew up playing instruments and all through those concert band years we studied, rehearsed & preformed classical.
I had my first child while I was in highschool & that hour of band was my salvation. No one would bother me… I knew no one was staring at me… their eyes were burried in their sheet music, and it was the one hour each day where I could float into something different than the here & now. I could be JUST like all the kids my age and I could escape everything & during that hour- it was only about the music.
My daughter spent her first nine months and most of her childhood surrounded by that beautiful escape & now, 11 years later, spends much of her “free” time listening to classical. She doesn’t play an instrument as we had hoped, she dances- so she took those familliar sounds and applied them in her own way. She is so inspiring to me that I joined an adult ballet class & once again, I look forward to that one hour where I melt into the melody and drift far from reality.
I believe that good classical music brings joy & harmony to the spirits of people of various & diverse backgrounds. Instruments which convert sound into colours have demonstrated beauty in the colours (vibrations) of classical music — & have demonstrated the opposite in relation to : for example heavy rock ‘music’.These (classical music) vibrations harmonise with the Chakras of the human body, bringing spiritual, emotional, mental, & physical benefits.
to me classical music cannot be defined in the traditional sense, it must be covered by all other types of music, what one person finds tasteful the next wont?, to me classical music is classic music, there are lots of musicians out there, some write some covet, you take a look across the whole spectrum of music, there are writers out there who would put them selves in the pop catagory, whats that got to do with classical i hear you all shout, well lets take what is arguable the best pop group ever, abba, the music given to us by abba is classic there for classical, but in my opinion the best classicla writer of modern day classics is bruce springsteen, the music produced by the man is great. you cannot forget eminem, like him or loath him, you cannot escape from the greatness of his song writing, both are modern day classics, i rest my case
I appreciate classical music, but I have no musical ability. I believe that classical music is the foundation and the summation of all music. All true musicians have a firm grasp a classical music.
ENJOYMENT AND EMOTIONAL RELEASE!
classical music helped me to learn music when i was a teen. i play a bass guitar and a few others. when practicing for a heavy metal gig, i would listen to Mozart, and others. to this day, I’m 39 now, still listen to classical music when i want to relax.
Classical music brings beauty to a sometimes ugly world.
Without classical music I wouldn’t have had much of a life. While attending college in New York I often cut classes on Friday afternoon to visit Carnegie Hall to listen to some of the greatest conductors interpret various classical pieces. What an experience! I am very well versed in classical music, both opera and symphony and I had an enormous collection of almost the entire popular repertoir ranging from Beethoven to Shostakovich and beyond. I remember one night I attended a concert at Carnegie given by Bernard Haitink and the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam and it was so overwhelming that I walked out into the winter night carrying my overcoat on my arm. I almost froze to death. I can still hear the music in my head it was so well played. Music became part of my employment because as an engineer I designed loudspeakers for several very large companies and I always used classical music to “tune” my designs. I might add that your interpretation of Le Sacre with the Boston Symphony was one my favorite pieces because the bass response was awesome as was the performance. I have yet to hear a better rendition and I must have heard this piece at least a dozen or more times live and at least five times more on record.
I enjoy your recordings and your analysis of the piece you are about to play, or playing. I love Previn and his renditions but I think that you are even better and that is a mighty high compliment. You are a very fine conductor and your recordings are decidedly furthering the art of classical music.
Keep up the excellent work Maestro!
There are hundreds of great answers above mine.
I will just say that I listen to classical music when I am in a bad or sad mood. The music lifts my spirits. I also listen when I am in a good mood. The classical music keeps me in a good mood.
I actually study better and I also heard that it stimulates the brain and is suppose to actually make you smarter educationally your suppose to retain more when studying or learning in the classroom therefore better test grades.
I feel it is calming and anti stress reliever but, I also heard that your suppose to play classical music when your pregnant and try to put the music to your belly with headphones for the baby in the belly to hear it is suppose to make the baby more calm and i heard smarter too??
I think adhd it shold help holistically too.
I need to research on line but these are some of my subjective opinions as well as other things i have heard though numerous times from others.
Classical music is very universal all over the world since there is no language it speaks but it own….ahhhh
There are many positive to this music it is rich with so much to offer so many different ways.
It is like prayer for me
Without classical music there would not be anything classical. Without this particular type of musical performance my children would never calm down enough to enjoy the sounds and drift off to sleep.
soft classical music is relaxing, my typing teacher played it to relax his class.
Hi,
I was listening to a classical music when i came across this question. i belive classical music, due to the order and rules guiding its composition, can bring sanity to our falling world. It helps in deep thinking and meditation. Research says it can regulate blood pressure so, If everyone can listen to this form of music, the world will change
I recently heard about a judge who made a young man listen to an hour of classical music after he was ticketed for blasting his rap out of the car.
I realize you would probably shudder to think of classical music beig used as “punishment”, but I see it as a way to teach tolerence to the angry, selfish youth who feel they own the world these days.
Classical music has always been something for me to relax to. After comming in off a long hard mission while I was serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, I would put some classical music on my mp3 player and relax. It allowed me to think about what I had just done and calm down from the daily stress of where I was. I believe that the classical music was a great help to me in keeping my sanity as well as a healthy way of calming myself down.
My grandfather introduced me to classical music when I was a toddler back in the early 60′s. My grandparents lived with us. On Saturday and Sunday afternoons, he would sit on the couch and listen to his beautiful albums of classical music.
I would sometimes join him and he would tell me about the composers and the music and I would share my favorites.
I grew to love classical music because of him. He loved the music with his heart and soul. My father loved opera’s.
Especially the Italian opera’s! Both my grandfather and father were born in Italy. Listening to classical music was a part of growing up in our family. I own a small day care since 1990. Everyday I have our classical station on for the children. The children are ages 2 – 4. During the summer the older children also listen and love the music. It is very educational and calming for them. I am very sad and dissapointed because the classical station I listen to suddenly went off the air this past summer (WFMR) Milwaukee,Wisconsin. They claim not enough listeners but I don’t believe it. It was such a part of my life and the childrens.
I now play my classical cd’s for them. It is such a great loss for us in Milwaukee,not having a classical station anymore!
I tried contacting the station. No luck!
My Father and grandfather have passed but their love of classical music will always live on in my heart and I will share the love with others. Thank you for the beautiful question!
p.s. I am a female (The picture above my name in Yahoo is a male for some reason). Thank you.
I have loved classical music from the time I was a small child.
When I was in elementary school we had what was called “Music Appreciation”. During this class we would listen to classical music and then at the end of the year, we would be given a test on the music to see if we could identify it and the composer. We also had free concerts and I always looked forward to them.
Today, I love classical music and my range of composers, though there are many, still revert to the ones I studied in grade school and high school. There is just such great joy, warmth, sadness and life in this music. You certainly cannot find it in the music written today, except for those composers who are well trained and serious about good music.
Some of the great musical scores come really close to being wonderful masterpieces for our time. Some really good composers such as John Williams, Martin Gerschwitz, John Barry and others.
It’s impacted my life to an extent that I can have a really bad day and sit down and listen to a piece, and suddenly, the world is not so bad anymore. This is a gift.
Listening to good classical music, no matter who it is by has always helped me with my poetry by inspiring visions in my head of what to write about as well as helping relax me.
Short answer from me I know but all I’ve said is true.
Showcase new talent especially new composers. It is the 21st century and most people still think if they listen to Bach, Mozart or Beethoven they now have culture and the journey is over. Once you think you have it all figured out it is probably time to go back and start again. Bring classical music to everyone. Perhaps a classical “Woodstock” would open the door to many new listeners because they would stop thinking that wealth and culture go hand and hand. Take the music out of symphony hall and into the arena. Why do we have to watch aging rock stars every year at the super bowl? I have watched your PBS series and have bought some of your Cd’s because you project such joy when you are conducting as well as when you are talking to young children. It is wonderful to hear a new prodigy but isn’t it just as nice to see a young child smiling because they know the music is beautiful just for the sake of pure joy it brings them. I have had the opportunity to hear many young musicians play. What we don’t need is more robots force fed a diet of musical scholarship to increase their parents snob appeal. I would rather listen to a hip-hop, rock, jazz, classical or blues musician who plays from the heart and feels the music then someone who just plays the music by rote that they were force fed by a cruel parent. There is no doubt in my mind that if you were to bring Copland to the Super Bowl you couldn’t rock the house. Just think of the number of people who you could reach for the first time. Somewhere someone will hear the beauty of classical music for the first time beginning a journey that never ends and that my friend will change society for the better.
making me sleep.
i has been a joy becaus my 1 year old listens to classical music
It elevates my thoughts to good and pure things. It also has very real calming affect on my heart and blood pressure. So classical music is good for one’s physical and mental health both.
Classical music – and not just “western,” but all classical forms – sets the standard for all music. Without it, I think that music in general would have deteriorated. I don’t think any music is without value, and music certainly seems to be something that human beings MUST create. Classical music gives us a benchmark; it’s an example of what the very best can be.
As to my own experiences with classical music, it’s a part of my life in things ranging from playing the piano a bit myself for the past 45 years or so, to movies, live concerts when possible, and recordings, to more casual settings – the violinist or guitarist in Pike Street marketplace who’s simply playing to play – and probably because he simply MUST play, that being the hallmark of a true musician, in my opinion – and to allow others to enjoy his music. My life would be a lot duller without classical music, and I don’t ever want to lose it.
I would have to say that Music Education, is the the most important contribution that classical music could make, for without the knowledge of music, how it created, why it is created and it what enviroments, we could lose many type’s of music and its history.
I played a violin thru most of my school years. Classical music was some of the first music I learned and it gave me an appreication for the artistic value and the history involved.
This may sound strange coming from a women that don’t own a CD player, radio, etc. Anyways from what I have seen from here in the state of Washington. At their Capitol public city bus transportation. They turn on classical music to drive the homeless people away from loitering around the public transportation place.
Personally myself I play the piano and the keyboard. Yet, I only chose to play the black keys. (My friends broke my keyboard by accident. I wasn’t there). I play to sooth my spirit. To tame my sorrow of pain that runs through me. One day I sat at the pier in the Capitol. There is this place where you can walk up these stairs an it over looks the water, a tower. Will I got there with my key board that I haven’t held in my arms for some time. With fresh batteries placed into my keyboard. I was feeling very sad about many injustice that I just not see in my life. I also see injustice around the world. So I sat up there and closed my eyes and played my heart away. My intentions was to play until the batteries went dead (ha ha). I later on opened my eyes and saw that people were standing around me watching me play. It tickled me. What marveled me is that people gave me money for playing. I should make it a career one person said. Another person asked me how long I had been playing. A women said that I had been playing for some time. For she entered into the park and thought it was a radio. She told me that when she came to the park that her heart was very heavy. Soon she realized that it was I playing the keyboard and not some classical radio station. She asked me if I had a recording of my own work. She requested one from me. Because I am a poor person and inexperienced with the recording society. Still to this day I haven’t made one. Classical music has given me a new out look upon my life. An a way to look at life with an inner peace inside of me. I haven’t played my keyboard or sat at a piano for some time. I feel like am Jone’s for a keyboard right now. I really miss it. I feel very lonely an my life feels unfulfilled with out it. I also am a poet, singer, basket weaver, carver, chainsaw carver, I also make choker’s. What we natives call hickey hiders. An I make dream catchers as will. Due to lack of funds an a steady place to live. I haven’t done much of any of things I enjoy doing. I struggle to continue on with my poetry. One not being stable in their own life cause complications. Like where do they keep their stuff. Well I guess I have said enough. You have a great day. I hope to get a chance to meet you before I cross over into the spirit world. What are you doing in Oct. 17th? e-mail me at rightsfirstnow@yahoo.com and i will let you know why! Let us all try to enjoy life. For we only have one life to live. I hope that this answer helps you some how. Have a great weekend everyone!
all classical music gives a message i live by those messages,All classical music as a meaning to life.
it has tought me how to sleep