music

Eventually I would like to have a button that will turn off the music. But at the present time that amounts to a big learning experience and I simply do not have the time.

I am sorry if you hate the music! Some love it some hate it, and only a few are in the middle. If you are one that hates “long hair” or “midi sound” I would suggest you find the volume control for your speakers and turn the speakers off. Sometimes speakers have a control knob right on them which makes it easy. In most computers you will find sound control in the “Control Panel” under “sounds and audio devices”. Click on mute and you will not have to listen to my music.

Music is about as important to me as painting. I have often said that I am a “gifted” listener. A few attempts over my lifetime to play were disasters. Early on I wanted to play the violin, and succeeded in getting the dog to sit at my feet and howl with my screeching on the strings. Dad finally begged me to stop my lessons. Years later I realized it was the violin itself I wanted more than the ability to play it. Other attempts at music were equally bizarre, including learning to play the organ and piano, neither of which were relaxing experiences, as I would get more up-tight the longer I played. Of course I started out by trying to learn to play Bach’s Two-Part Inventions! I sang in the school choir and loved every minute of it, but now only sing at the top of my voice when alone in the car.

Classical Music is art. All art makes me happy. So I listen to Classical Music, and support my local Public Radio station that plays wonderful music all day and half the night. If I didn’t have that I would have Satellite Radio, or a Walkman or some other device that would feed music to my ears all day. I don’t pretend to know much about music, but I am like so many people who feel inadequate about “ART” when they say to me, “I don’t know anything about art but I know what I like”. That is me and music! Mostly I like it all, ancient, modern and everything in-between: opera, piano pieces, ballets, symphonies, chorale extravaganzas and little folk dances. From Monteverdi to Philip Glass, music is the grease that keeps me going.

I do hope that you give the music on my website a chance. I have spent hours picking it, sometimes editing the volume in a special music program that makes me crazy, and searching to find just the right pieces that seem to fit my website. The treasure trove for all this music is a website called Classical Archives. This huge website now has internet radio which feeds music to my Windows Media Player when I’m sick of listening to the same old news over and over.

Arcangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso In G Op. 6, No. 8 (Christmas Concerto) No. 5b. Largo Pastorale ad Libitum (permission pending)