Classical Music

Classical Music

Over the years music has been changing, from simple musical compositions to much complex music genres like rock, pop, rap etc. Most of the amazing musical compositors that use to compose music back then like Beethoven, Mozart, Bach etc, are being forgotten. Must teenagers now a days do not know what the Moonlight Sonata is or other major compositions or how classical music affected so many things in the past like authors, sculptors etc.

In my first semester in BCC I had to take an elective class and I went for music class. I thought that in the music class you were going to learn how to play an instrument or something, that is what I thought it was. I enrolled in it and my first day in that class I acknowledge that the real purpose of that class was to study the story of classical music, to be honest it did not seem exciting to me at all. I have always liked slow music and genres like pop etc, so the thought of listening to music that was nothing like that did not seemed very joyful to me. After a few weeks passed I starred learning how to enjoy that music and how to feel the mode and the feelings that the artist was trying to project on the listeners by every move and every symphony. 

At the end of the semester we had to make a project in which we had to go to a classical music concert in our owns and write about every composition that was played in the concert. First of all I did not even know how to find a concert of classical music, I felt surprised of how little I knew about the topic. I asked my professor and she gave me a name of a webpage that i can not recall. I found many in the city for very affordable prices, I chose one named Organ works by Bach and more, by a organist named Claudia Dumschat, in a church named Church of the Transfiguration, starting at 8:00 pm and I paid like 7 dollars. I chose that one because I had to go after my shift in my job ended because as always I left it for last minute. When I arrived to the church it was very nice, the organ was enormous and people were welcoming you on the entrance and collecting the tickets, I sat and the first thing I noticed was that there was probably only one person around my age and the rest were people around 50-70 years old well dressed. I felt really surprise that only 1 person out of like 70 that were there was around my age and I came to realize the reality, very few teenagers go to classical music concerts and I noticed also that I was just there because I had to do that project if not I would had been sleeping or paying for a much more expensive concert of Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber or Prince Royce. It felt so funny at the moment. I enjoyed every minute of it, there was one of the compositions that nearly made me cry, the first movement of it was really melancholic, I think the name was Nun komm der Heiden Heiland . I came to notice that in Rock, Pop and other music genders people are loud and there is not much organization, not like that concert that I went to, every body was quite and focus into listening, I noticed many that had their eyes close enjoying every melody. There were specific times to clap and nobody would make a sound while the artist was playing the compositions. After it finished they invited all of the people there to a little room in which they had snacks and wine, they even gave me wine and I was not even 18 back then (do not tell this to anyone). It lasted around 3 hours and I felt very good and relaxed after it ended.

In conclusion, In that experience that I had there I noticed a lot of things one of them, how classical music is being forget by these young generation, music that is so relaxing and transmits so many feelings without having lyrics, without saying a word it could touch you deep inside. Those 3 hours that I spent there were worth every penny, before if someone asked me "Genesis would you go to a classical music concert?" I would had probably said no or that is boring but now I would said that it would be a pleasure. Classical music to me is music for the soul.