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Music - do you love it?
Music surely saved my life. When I was a teenager and suffering all the problems of that age, I found drugs, and life became very dark. Many people retire to that place in our minds where hope is lost; some make it back out and some do not.
I found music; I would lie on the floor with my ear next to the speaker and play the slow movement of the Beethoven emperor concerto. The music was sad, but it touched my heart and I was no longer alone. That same music eased the pain of TX for me. It calmed me down and helped me deal with the problems of the real world while I was working.
I love music of almost all genres. Perhaps not elevator music and pop music that sounds as if it was designed by the people that design ugly cars specked out by a marketing survey. If it comes from the heart, I love it; be it the cerebral notes of a Bach cello sweet -- almost mathematical in form; the passion of a choral and, at the opposite end, the pounding beat of rock and reggae -- music that stirs a different kind of passion.
So -- what kind of music do you like?
I found music; I would lie on the floor with my ear next to the speaker and play the slow movement of the Beethoven emperor concerto. The music was sad, but it touched my heart and I was no longer alone. That same music eased the pain of TX for me. It calmed me down and helped me deal with the problems of the real world while I was working.
I love music of almost all genres. Perhaps not elevator music and pop music that sounds as if it was designed by the people that design ugly cars specked out by a marketing survey. If it comes from the heart, I love it; be it the cerebral notes of a Bach cello sweet -- almost mathematical in form; the passion of a choral and, at the opposite end, the pounding beat of rock and reggae -- music that stirs a different kind of passion.
So -- what kind of music do you like?
Nice to see the twists and turns this music thread have taken. Like Trish and Isobella, my dad was enmeshed in the Scottish and Irish music scene, but not as a player - more as a groupie if you can imagine this 75 year old gray headed man with a twinkle in his eye and his "Up Your Kilt" t-shirt and his 4'10" grayheaded girlfriend. He hit all the Scottish games and Irish music festivals from Michigan to Ohio to N Carolina and even out to Texas once. When he died, an Irish baggpipe player played at his graveside and his favorite Irish band gave him a wake in his favorite Irish pub and composed a song about him to include all his really bad jokes. We buried him in his Up Your Kilt t-shirt. I love the music too although can't get much of it here is West Tecas.
Wow ... I did not know about that. That would be an amazing experience. Thanks for sharing that with me. (check that out, Izzy!)
Let me know when you're going next time and I'll meet you there. ;->
Let me know when you're going next time and I'll meet you there. ;->
Got to thinking about this and thought it would be of passing interest that I was here:
http://www.edintattoo.co.uk/programme/the-edinburgh-military-tattoo-programme-1964
... and I remember it like it was 45 years ago :) Actually, I do remember: late, cold, damp, a blanket, jumping dogs, and about a million pipers and drummers flooding the field ....
Tried to go in 2006 but did not plan ahead for it ....
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