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so I’m obsessed with my classical music right now. It’s nigh unto 2am and I can’t seem to make myself turn off my Andre Rieu DVD that just came from Amazon yesterday, it the one in the Royal Albert Hall. Quite fantastic. And I’m loving it because of the sheer happiness that overcomes people as they are moved by music, I love that old men find youth again as they waltz around with their wives, and that people’s clapping drives them out of their seats…. all from classical music. It’s amazing to me. I wish that I could have his job, that I was a brilliant musician who just practiced so I could play for people and make them smile like that. I need that job. :)

One more bit on classical music, I have been trying to verse myself a bit more in what we all take for granted, I’m speaking of the great pieces of classical music that have stood for hundreds of years as masterpieces but are largely overlooked by my generation. I picked up the top 100 classical greats, and have to say, I’m shocked at how familiar many of them are, but at the same time, bothered that I don’t know who did what or what they mean. I will make myself be a skosh more cultured. :) But it’s not just culture, it’s appreciation for what we have, I saw a ted.com bit on this by Benjamin Zander (check it here) and came away thinking, we really are richer than we deserve, and it’s so fun to see people come into that appreciation. So yeah, I’m just loving the masterpieces of the music world right now.

that is all.

thx.