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Started by Da Wham, January 22, 2009, 12:42:07 PM

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libby

#19
December 10, 2011, 05:01:23 PM
This is a great thread! ... and one of the reasons I asked to join this forum.

I've been listening to some old tapes today, one of which is Solitudes CHRISTMAS CLASSICS. It's not your usual Christmas music -- I found it is a science store in a local mall. No voices. There's one piece by Bach that is my favorite: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring  The first time I heard it (when?) it was as if I already knew it ... like it had always been there in my head.
All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

Y

#20
December 14, 2011, 12:29:53 PM
Hi Libby!

I love that one too, learned to play it decades ago when I studied classical guitar, and feel the same way about Bach - that everything he did I somehow knew. 
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In other words: Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.  ;)

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libby

#21
December 14, 2011, 05:55:29 PM
Quote from: Y on December 14, 2011, 12:29:53 PM
Hi Libby!

I love that one too, learned to play it decades ago when I studied classical guitar, and feel the same way about Bach - that everything he did I somehow knew.

Hello, Y! So you studied classical guitar! I am impressed!   :music1: 
All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

Y

#22
December 14, 2011, 06:47:35 PM
I liked nylon string guitars (usually classical) when I first heard them and was in to folk finger picking.  What prompted my entry into the classic guitar was way back in the day I had an old radio that had short wave and exploring that I came across signals from Europe with flamenco and classical guitar.  I became enamored of it and when I finally found a classical teacher, I'd ride my bicycle 20 or 25 miles there and back with my guitar on my back every Saturday to take lessons.  He finally earned a professorship in classical guitar and stopped giving public lessons, and classical guitar not being that popular I had to take it on my own from there.  I never became greatly proficient, the standard of proficiency for the classical guitar being very high and requiring a monomania and lifetime commitment, but I still play well enough.  As a matter of fact, my classical guitar is here in its usual handy place, by my chair, and gets manhandled daily.   :biggrin:
©  Whamma-Jamma - all rights reserved

Law of Logical Argument - Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.  ;)

"You've probably noticed that opinion pollsters go out of their way to include as many morons as possible in surveys ... I think it's dangerous to inform morons about what their fellow morons are thinking. It only reinforces their opinions. And the one thing worse than a moron with an opinion is lots of them." -- Scott Adams

In other words: Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.  ;)

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair

"Hitler is gone, but if the majority of our fellow citizens are more susceptible to the slogans of fear and race hatred than to those of peaceful accommodation and mutual respect among human beings, our political liberties remain at the mercy of any eloquent and unscrupulous demagogue." -- S. I. Hayakawa

libby

#23
December 15, 2011, 02:28:09 PM
What an fascinating story  :yes:

I have no training in music and don't play an instrument. When I was a girl I spent all my spare time drawing and stargazing. Didn't like the music I heard at home and church. Then, in high school, a good friend introduced me to classical, and from there on I just followed my ear.


All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

libby

#25
December 17, 2011, 04:25:11 PM
Thank you, Da Wham!   :happy: 
All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

Y

#27
December 24, 2011, 08:55:09 PM
Quote from: libby on December 15, 2011, 02:28:09 PM
What an fascinating story  :yes:

I have no training in music and don't play an instrument. When I was a girl I spent all my spare time drawing and stargazing. Didn't like the music I heard at home and church. Then, in high school, a good friend introduced me to classical, and from there on I just followed my ear.

I was into art myself, studying it in High School, and even got to the point where I was beginning to sell some of my paintings but I left FLA. and all my art supplies, moved to L.A., and then Berkeley before moving back home to IN., and never took it up seriously again.  I'll still draw off and on, but music took precedence in my life. 

I used to love looking at the stars.  You didn't happen to have the Little Blue Book of Stars too when you were a child, did you?  I searched for years for another copy of that book and finally found one a few years ago and lost it, and tons of other irreplaceable books, in a fire three years ago.

In high school I took a Music Appreciation class that was taught by a fantastic teacher.  She not only turned me on to folk music, she turned me on to classical music, and I was never the same after that.  She opened up whole worlds for me, and the sad thing is, I cannot even remember her name.  The education she gave me is one reason I'm SO against the removal of the arts from education.  The Arts are FAR more important to a child's education than sports, but they keep sports and remove the Arts.  Pffffft!   :mad:
©  Whamma-Jamma - all rights reserved

Law of Logical Argument - Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.  ;)

"You've probably noticed that opinion pollsters go out of their way to include as many morons as possible in surveys ... I think it's dangerous to inform morons about what their fellow morons are thinking. It only reinforces their opinions. And the one thing worse than a moron with an opinion is lots of them." -- Scott Adams

In other words: Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.  ;)

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair

"Hitler is gone, but if the majority of our fellow citizens are more susceptible to the slogans of fear and race hatred than to those of peaceful accommodation and mutual respect among human beings, our political liberties remain at the mercy of any eloquent and unscrupulous demagogue." -- S. I. Hayakawa

libby

#28
December 26, 2011, 03:47:52 PM
 8 :laugh: Everything I know about art (like music) is also self-taught.  I started drawing in grade school, and liked to do faces. Everybody thought I'd be an artist, but I was already poor, and 'life'  had other plans for me.

As for the Little Blue Book of Stars, it sounds a lot like the one I have - somewhere.  I came across it while I was unpacking books after a move a few years ago. I don't remember the title, but it it's dark blue. When I was 21, after a major emotional upheaval in my life, which began  with my father's death, I built a telescope from scratch -- meaning I walked around a barrel for a year, grinding and poiishing the concave "mirror" for a 6 inch, 100 power reflector. Found the instructions in a friend's Mechanics Illustrated. My family thought I'd lost my mind.  I had help in that a carpenter friend built me a sturdy tripod, another friend made the body of the 'scope from an irrigation tube, and another put together the eyepiece for me.  The biggest surprise of all for me was when one of those friends took me and my telescope to a high mountaintop near Beckley, WV and we aimed it at the moon, and it worked! But it's too big for practical use. Where I live, there are too many city lights. But I still remember those dark starry nights in West Virginia.
All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn
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