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RE: Is listening to music even popular anymore?

Late response.

I haven't spent much time on this forum or our hobby these days, due to other pursuits (wife likes Fox News in our entertainment room, so I can't listen, teen studying, or she might sometimes be playing or practicing her violin, I am busy).

Kids are streaming or downloading to iTunes and listening on phones all the time. So they do listen, although Todd K and others may not like the quality of the music.

When my teen has a new piece in lessons or orchestra, she goes to YouTube and listens to several versions. When she has to learn the Mendelssohn VC, for example as she is doing, she listens to many versions. Incidentally, in general she loves Heifetz, young Stern and Perlman, also Sarah Chang (young Asian). She even loves some of the "fatter guy" as she describes David Oistrakh in his latter years. Learned from YouTube.

Anyway, their attention is split. But, when the Smetana MaVlast comes on my car, she starts humming right along (few kids can do so), as they played this here and in a 4 concert European tour last yr.

For people at your age, an example is this. Just 2 days ago, speaking to a 30 odd yr old friend who plays the piano pretty well, do you have time to listen anymore? He is a young seminary prof, has 3 young kids, etc. He downloaded all his CD's before moving to Asia, and has them, but told me he can't listen to very exciting stuff and big stuff while writing in between teaching. Instead, he has been listening to Bach violin sonatas played by Itzhak Perlman. So, the spark is still present, it's just not used much in his life, til later.


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