Re: GG: First symphonies, now classical radio

[john grant <dohertygrant@sympatico.ca>]

As a child

Mother sang Schubert songs, played piano; Dad played violin, clarinet, and
piano quite well.   They played the usual stuff on our "GE" record player
(circa 1960): Brahms, Mozart, Beethoven symphonies, piano and violin
concerti.

Also, I grew up in the days when CBC radio morning news was accompanied by
Brahms 1 symphony, last movement, I think.   Who, here, is old enough to
remember that!

At about 8 years of age I became addicted to an Arthur Rubinstein, Dimitri
Mitropoulos recording of Tchiakovsky pc 1.   Then I thought it was greatest
music ever written.  It was on a set of 78s.  When, inevitably, I broke one
by accident I was beyond myself.   My parents bought me a later Rubinstein
recording of the Tchiakovsky, then Richter with Ancerl, but nothing seemed
as good to me.   Only last year did I find it, amazingly on CD!!!  I was
right, BTW; it's still the best.

Gould, Arrau, and Richter were my heros at 12, and aside from discovering
Bach choral music, Feinburg's WTK, and a few other tasty treats, not much
has really changed for me.

J.A.L. Grant
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/42/john_lewis_grant.html
WTC 1 part 1:
http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/244/bach_welltempered_clavier_bk_1.html
WTC 1 part 2:
http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/190/the_welltempered_clavier_bk_1_.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Petherick" <bpetherick@SHAW.CA>
To: <F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: GG: First symphonies, now classical radio


> >
> >So my question is to everyone on the list-- where DID you first hear
> >"serious" music?  I'm supposing that non-Americans have a bit of an
>
>
>          My father played classical piano and had a whole bunch of records
> - mainly Chaikovskii Ballet music funnily enough, and that is where I
heard
> serious music, or more precisely, as the only other music was a Beatles
> greatest hits record, just music. I was also fortunate to be in an
> educational system that included quite a bit of, what I now would call,
> music appreciation eg I knew, by rote, the parts of the orchestra
[strings,
> woodwinds, brass and percussion] and what instruments belonged to each
> section by Grade 3 or 4 (thanks be to _Young Persons guide to the
> Orchestra_, and to _Peter and the Wolf!_]
>          The only radio I listen to is "classical", except for the
> Australian Rules when I live in Melbourne. On the other hand, I intensely
> dislike most classical music stations as they all seem to play the same
> music over and over and I wish they would play whole pieces, rather than
> the first movement of Beethoven's whatever. I heard on a local station
here
> the other day, the first 6 pieces of the Goldbergs 81. What is the point
of
> that????
>
> Bruce Petherick
>