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Originally Posted by Radio
Carl needs to expand his musical horizons!
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It's more than fifty years since the last time someone told me that. It was written in a birthday card accompanying a Frank Zappa tape. Yuck.
The college friend who wrote it never listened to anything that wasn't played on electric guitar.
I gave him a tape of classical guitar (Laurindo Almeida) to start him off. He'd never heard that stuff before, nor had he ever heard (or even heard
of, I think) bassoons, oboes, cellos, etc. He had heard of trumpets, but was amazed to learn that they come in various sizes and tonal ranges. Same for flutes, clarinets and such.
He categorized all non-guitar music as "classical" and affected disdain for it. I think he was afraid of it. I got him to listen to renaissance, baroque, romanticism, actual classical, neo-romanticism, and even ragtime (Joplin -- Scott, not Janis) and jazz for the first time. Oh yes, and Brubeck. He even grew to like some of it, especially Joplin, which I love. Joshua Rifkin plays it best.
He never succeeded in expanding my musical horizons, though. I'm still the same narrow-spectrum, one-eared old stick-in-the-mud I've always been.