9CatMom wrote:
Listening to music on a special 1960s music channel on television.
I love those music channels. I have my TV set to wake me up to the Swing and Big Band channel - beats an alarm clock anyday.
I sort of reading an WSJ article "From Miles Davis to Bjork, They've Loved Stckhausen." It's about how many jazz and experimental musicans love the recently deceased avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen even though the classical world is kind of "hmm" about him. Says:
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That's partly [Stockhausen's] own fault. His mysticism took him over; he said he'd contected beings from another star and in effect had channeled their music. Late in the 70's he embarked on a huge cycle of operas, seven of them, 29 hours of music in all. And though some were produced, the project as a whole seemed too much for the classical world to swallow, especially when one of the works called for a string quartet in which each instrumentalist is suspended in the air from a helicopter.
To each their own obsessions, yes?