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From: sr@u1100a.UUCP (Steven Radtke)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: introduction to classical music
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Date: Wed, 2-May-84 09:43:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  2 09:43:30 1984
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I was introduced to classical music by a friend who greatly loves 20th
century music. But rather than sit in an apartment and spin a few disks
we went to a performance of Poullenc's Voluntaries by the American
Ballet Theatre at the Met in NYC. We talked about what he expected to
hear and he gave me a little of the historical background. 

My point is that music is the performance, the human activity, the
sharing of artist and audience, it is harder to appreciate that when
dealing with recordings, which are so much more abstract in appeal.
What I experienced that night was a rich and exciting new ( for me )
world. 

My vote for introduction to music via LIVE performance.

Steve Radtke
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