Classical Music is all around us - television advertisements, movie soundtracks, answerphone machines.... we're exposed to it every day. It can get under our skin (in a nice way), excite us, calm us and transport us into a world of our own imagining.
For those new to Classical Music, our mission is to take the fear element out of it. By that I mean remove the sometimes elitist or pretentious associations that prevent people enjoying it. It's there for everyone, whatever their background or education. I for one know that my life would be the poorer without it.
I grew up listening to Classical Music because my father often had the BBC Third Programme on, or played his classical 78s, so it wasn't strange to me. I'm lucky because I didn't have any preconceptions about it being difficult or 'heavy'. So as I didn't know that Beethoven's Late String Quartets (written when he was stone deaf) were meant to be demanding, or that Mahler's 7th Symphony was regarded at the time as odd or even incomprehensible, I came to it as an innocent abroad. Everything I tried was just part of an exciting journey of discovery - some I liked, some I didn't. Some I like now but didn't then and vice versa. And to continue the geographical analogy, there's still plenty of territory left for me to explore. I hope you will embark on a similar journey if you have not done so already.
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