“Hallelujah”: A primer for everyone who wants to learn about what they’ve been missing, as Washington Post reports.
Classical music aficionados: Go away. This article is not for you.
Instead, it is for everyone who sees classical music as a private club
and who feels they’re standing outside the clubhouse. It’s for those who
have been to one or two orchestral concerts but are still not quite
sure what they’re supposed to be getting out of the experience. It’s for
those who like the sound of a few classical pieces but want to move
beyond Mozart’s “A Little Night Music” and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
and the flower duet from “Lakme” — trust me, you’ve heard it; look it up
— and take a deeper dive into the repertoire.
But concert programs list
unfamiliar names, without much guidance into how to choose between
them, and when you type Mozart into Spotify you get a wall of tracks,
many of them different versions of the same thing. For anyone who
relates to any part of this description, here’s a field guide with a few
points to keep in mind as you exercise your classical muscles and seek
out which territory, in this wide-ranging field, feels most like home.
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Source: Washington Post