Re: GG: First symphonies, now classical radio

[Bruce Petherick <bpetherick@shaw.ca>]

> 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