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>Glad you're feeling better.
>Lots a great things out there if we can let ourselves can enjoy them.
>We attended the season opening concert by the New Jersey Capitol Philharmonic Orchestra last night at Trenton's War Memorial theater.
>I've been a classical music fan all my life, but the maestro led the orchestra in two pieces we'd never heard before and both were amazingly uplifting.
>I know your musical interests are different so I won't bore you with the titles but as I looked around at the enraptured gray-haired audience I was reminded again that survival is key.
>If we can somehow stay just in the game, wonderful things can happen.
That's a very good point - you just have to stay in the game.
Actually, there is some classical music I like. I have several Franz Liszt CDs and love his piano solos. I like some of Rachmaninoff, Grieg, and Chopin. Not a fan of Bach, Beethoven, or Mozart, but I realize it all comes down to taste.
My 3 top rock bands are Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and Rush. Yes and ELP had musicians who were classically trained and they lifted bits from classical pieces into their music.
Here is something you might appreciate: Keith Emerson from ELP playing a version of a piece from the great Argentine composer, Alberto Ginastera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MRWvGXxSZM
