frog, your comment suggests I share a little personal musical history - "If the listener doesn’t like Classical, Baroque music in particular, chances are he won’t like it."
As mentioned previously, I grew up in a house with a fair bit of recorded music. Dad played records of jazz from the '30s and '40s while mom listened to pop singers of the day, mixed with only a little light-classical. My own interests in music began with rock and roll (Bill Haley, Little Richard, Elvis), then folk, then jazz, but I had practically no exposure to classical music.
Early on in college I happened to hear some of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and was fascinated by it. To me the polyrhythms were similar enough to some jazz lines to make a connection, as well as the "call and response" element. So I began listening to other music by Bach, and that lead to other Baroque composers such as Vivaldi, Telemann, etc. Eventually that lead me to Beethoven, Mozart, and many others.
My point in sharing this is to suggest there can be a tie between jazz and classical, as well as my own wonderment that my appreciation for classical evolved from jazz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSRIDtwsfM
All this contributed to my appreciation for a wide variety of music, even some opera and country western which I once discounted totally. Today I can find something to enjoy in just about every genre, the exceptions being rap, hip-hop, and heavy metal. ;^)
As mentioned previously, I grew up in a house with a fair bit of recorded music. Dad played records of jazz from the '30s and '40s while mom listened to pop singers of the day, mixed with only a little light-classical. My own interests in music began with rock and roll (Bill Haley, Little Richard, Elvis), then folk, then jazz, but I had practically no exposure to classical music.
Early on in college I happened to hear some of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and was fascinated by it. To me the polyrhythms were similar enough to some jazz lines to make a connection, as well as the "call and response" element. So I began listening to other music by Bach, and that lead to other Baroque composers such as Vivaldi, Telemann, etc. Eventually that lead me to Beethoven, Mozart, and many others.
My point in sharing this is to suggest there can be a tie between jazz and classical, as well as my own wonderment that my appreciation for classical evolved from jazz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSRIDtwsfM
All this contributed to my appreciation for a wide variety of music, even some opera and country western which I once discounted totally. Today I can find something to enjoy in just about every genre, the exceptions being rap, hip-hop, and heavy metal. ;^)