A memoir of discovering classical music. By way of social media.. Yonder & Home gives us A Philistine Ponders the Symphony.
Like many others, my gateway drug to classical music acceptance was the symphonic arrangements of movie scores. My own over-active imagination was always scored by John Williams, as my daydreams required the most epic of musical accompaniment. The Raiders of the Lost Ark arrangement was amazing to me.
There are 2 pieces at the link. Each about 10 minutes long. First there is “Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 (Movement II)” Fakhouri Conducting the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra. Second is “New World Symphony Part 3” by Dvorak, Andris Nelsons conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
As for the social media… who could turn this down?
What happens when the hillbilly who grew up in the middle of Eastcoast v Westcoast 90s hiphop, cuts his grass to metal, writes to EDM, cooks to jazz, and can sing you about every Johnny Cash song wanders into the symphony?
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