Janos Gereben asks:

> Can you remember the first piece of classical music that inspired you?
> A great question, although I wonder about "inspire." Impressed? Moved?
> Enchanted? Beethoven's Seventh for me, its  "apotheosis of dance." In
> opera, "Carmen," but no more, *please*!

Bach English Suite No. 2 in a and Debussy's Premiere Arabesque for me,
age 3 or 4.  Both pieces were played by my mother, and I used to pester
her for them.  When my parents bought me a little Victrola, about age
6, my favorite recording was a very large 78 of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker
Suite in a choral arrangement for Fred Waring.  I had no idea this was
classical music, of course.  It was just music, like Cab Calloway singing
"Minnie the Moocher" and "I'll Get By" or Jimmy Durante singing "Bill
Bailey" or any of the disposable Mitch-Miller-type pop that came over
the radio.

Steve Schwartz

             ***********************************************
The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R)
list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability
Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery.  For more information,
go to:  http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html