Beethoven's Fifth and My First.
Last Saturday, I ventured to do something I had stopped doing for quite some time. Open an hitherto unopened window. And then enjoy the new vista. I attended a concert in Western Classical Music at the Mayo Civic Center Theater in Rochester. It was a concert featuring Beethoven's Fifth symphony, the beginning of which has been used for great effect in many a dramatic situations. I began listening to western classicals more intently during my long to and fro drives to La Crosse. Listening to the Minnesota Public Radio became a habit. My ear became accustomed to the concertos and symphonies played on throughout. In fact so much that my first instincts after sitting in the car, apart from confirming the position of the rearview mirror, were to confirm I was on FM 91.7 . This is not to say that I understood the technicalities at all, but simply that I used to like listening to these classical strains. I recently got a 'Classical Music For Dummies' audiobookfrom the Public