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I just suggest this because this was similar to how I started liking
classical music while growing up. I didn't come from like a conessieur
(sorry for my spelling) family or anything, so my exposure was very
limited. (My dad's a plumber and my mom was like a clerk at JCPenny's
or something at the time) Believe it or not I got inspired to play the
piano from a Bugs Bunny cartoon "Rhapsody Rabbit" playing Liszt's
ever-popular Hungarian Rhapsody #2. So my grandparents bought me a cheap
little spinet piano and some lessons by a grad. student, and I've had
fun with it since. However, one of my personal favorite pieces "Waldstein"
has great emotion and development while pertaining that immediate
gratification.
Increasing boredom like you mentioned is a big concern, (that's part
of the reason I'm a theory/comp. major instead a piano performance).
I discovered my way through this boredom by learning to appreciate
"new experiences and realizations" I find in certain avant gardes and
neo-classism pieces. (Others I find as trash, but each to its own, lol)
Some of the in-depth Romantacism/Classical pieces people love didn't
quite strike me the same way as some modern pieces do. One thing I
noticed about composers these days is the music they write tends to be
in correlation to their personalities. I can usually expect something
great from some one with an intelligent out-landish personality, and
contrasting with this I can expect something as a painful experience
from a "nerd" composer whose intelligent with no personality who should
be strictly focused on anayltical and not compositional techniques.
Anyway, I went tangent, but the point is, there are many ways to push
forward once introduced. Do you really think they can go back to hip-hop
once heard some of classical's most impressive and virtuotic "greats"?
Just food for thought,
Anthony Walter
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