My sisters, Lori and Tammy, and my friend Linda, and I traveled together staying at our friend, Julie's beautiful, large, and comfortable home in Provo, Utah. We did this last year and had such a great time we wanted to repeat. You know how sometimes repeat trips just don't work as well as that first trip? Well, that didn't happen. It was just as great as last year.
Every year BYU http://ce.byu.edu/ed/edweek/ offers a ton of classes for adults with topics on religion, parenting, communication, the arts, etc. One of the classes I loved was all about classical music. I learned about a free personalized internet radio service called Pandora http://www.pandora.com.
Click on Pandora, register for free, and start selecting music that appeals to you. Pandora will select music that you may like based on a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" rating that you select--similar to TIVO. Pandora come from the Music Genome Project which analyzes music and breaks it down to somehow figure out what a person likes (I am totally paraphrasing). However, I am finding all sorts of new pieces that I am loving. A piece by Carl Stamitz is playing as I type this. I put in Mozart and Mozart-like pieces come up. I really wasn't familiar to Stamitz but I'm liking his music. See below for a sample.
Symphony In D Major "La Chasse": II. Andante
performed by: London Mozart Players
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Features Of This Song
Classical stylingsa symphony orchestra
tonal harmony
major key tonality
a walking pace tempo
an emotional aesthetic
a symphony
These are just a few of the hundreds of attributes cataloged for this song by the Music Genome Project.
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For some reason I am not able to edit this particular post. I forgot to add that Pandora is not just for classical music--it covers all genres. So have fun with it!
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