On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 2:40:43 AM UTC-8, Andy Evans wrote:
> As title.....
>
> You feel jaded, bored, familiar with all the stuff you usually listen to, or whatever.
>
> For instance, do you challenge yourself with something new e.g. new music, or go for some kind of comfort music to cheer up your spirits?

(Y. upload):

César Franck - Nocturne pour Contralto et Orchestre - Christa Ludwig, Daniel Barenboim 1976

On Friday, March 4, 2022 at 8:50:45 PM UTC-8, gggg gggg wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 2:40:43 AM UTC-8, Andy Evans wrote:
> > As title.....
> >
> > You feel jaded, bored, familiar with all the stuff you usually listen to, or whatever.
> >
> > For instance, do you challenge yourself with something new e.g. new music, or go for some kind of comfort music to cheer up your spirits?
> (Y. upload):
>
> César Franck - Nocturne pour Contralto et Orchestre - Christa Ludwig, Daniel Barenboim 1976

(Y. upload):

Cesar Franck - Nocturne [v: Elly Ameling -- pf: Rudolf Jansen]

On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 12:40:43 AM UTC-10, Andy Evans wrote:
> As title.....
>
> You feel jaded, bored, familiar with all the
> stuff you usually listen to, or whatever.
>
> For instance, do you challenge yourself
> with something new e.g. new music, or
> go for some kind of comfort music to
> cheer up your spirits?

I read http://www.wesjones.com/eoh.htm

dk

On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 2:40:43 AM UTC-8, Andy Evans wrote:
> As title.....
>
> You feel jaded, bored, familiar with all the stuff you usually listen to, or whatever.
>
> For instance, do you challenge yourself with something new e.g. new music, or go for some kind of comfort music to cheer up your spirits?

(Y. upload featuring Steber):

Berceuse, Songs Of The Auvergne (Cantaloube)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jcvgbbj897pihmq/Op%2043.mp3?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ertwxoblaa6yrx6/Book%20I.mp3?dl=0

On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 4:40:43 AM UTC-6, Andy Evans wrote:
> As title.....
>
> You feel jaded, bored, familiar with all the stuff you usually listen to, or whatever.
>
> For instance, do you challenge yourself with something new e.g. new music, or go for some kind of comfort music to cheer up your spirits?

I'm always listening to new stuff. Listening to Traffic "Heaven Is in Your Mind" for the first time right now. I tend to listen to classical music randomly, too, though I do get stuck on a groove there, too. Dutillieux's Metaboles is a recent fave. I have a friend who seems to listen to mostly classical and soundtrack, period. I can't imagine that. Give up Dexter Gordon, Curtis Mayfield, Fela Kuti, Stereolab, Jimmy Bryant/Speedy West and so on? A horror. Even if there are genres of music I can't seem to appreciate that's fine. There's too much good music to ever be bored.

On Sunday, March 20, 2022 at 10:22:52 AM UTC-5, mswd...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 4:40:43 AM UTC-6, Andy Evans wrote:
> > As title.....
> >
> > You feel jaded, bored, familiar with all the stuff you usually listen to, or whatever.
> >
> > For instance, do you challenge yourself with something new e.g. new music, or go for some kind of comfort music to cheer up your spirits?
> I'm always listening to new stuff. Listening to Traffic "Heaven Is in Your Mind" for the first time right now. I tend to listen to classical music randomly, too, though I do get stuck on a groove there, too. Dutillieux's Metaboles is a recent fave. I have a friend who seems to listen to mostly classical and soundtrack, period. I can't imagine that. Give up Dexter Gordon, Curtis Mayfield, Fela Kuti, Stereolab, Jimmy Bryant/Speedy West and so on? A horror. Even if there are genres of music I can't seem to appreciate that's fine. There's too much good music to ever be bored.

Avoiding one of the familiar ones, start almost anywhere in a complete set of Beethoven piano sonatas. The sheer urgency will perk you up/carry you along.

Lawrence Kart

On 3/20/2022 11:22 AM, mswd...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 4:40:43 AM UTC-6, Andy Evans wrote:
>> As title.....
>>
>> You feel jaded, bored, familiar with all the stuff you usually listen to, or whatever.
>>
>> For instance, do you challenge yourself with something new e.g. new music, or go for some kind of comfort music to cheer up your spirits?
>
> I'm always listening to new stuff. Listening to Traffic "Heaven Is in Your Mind" for the first time right now.

Traffic never did much for me. Grateful Dead neither. Too much meandering maybe. When I needed a lift, my go to was Rickie Lee Jones. I still listen to her. Other favorites are Pink Floyd (despite the politics), Led Zeppelin, Pretenders, Talking Heads, Neil Young, Beatles, of course, Blondie, Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Holly, Bowie, Kinks, Prince, Queen. On a lower level, the Stones, the Who, lots more I guess. More recently I like Arcade Fire and Lorde (first album mainly), Favorite American band of all time: X. Pretty conventional I guess.

I tend to listen to classical music randomly, too, though I do get stuck on a groove there, too. Dutillieux's Metaboles is a recent fave. I have a friend who seems to listen to mostly classical and soundtrack, period. I can't imagine that. Give up Dexter Gordon, Curtis Mayfield, Fela Kuti, Stereolab, Jimmy Bryant/Speedy West and so on? A horror. Even if there are genres of music I can't seem to appreciate that's fine. There's too much good music to ever be bored.

On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 2:40:43 AM UTC-8, Andy Evans wrote:
> As title.....
>
> You feel jaded, bored, familiar with all the stuff you usually listen to, or whatever.
>
> For instance, do you challenge yourself with something new e.g. new music, or go for some kind of comfort music to cheer up your spirits?

https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/relaxing-ambient-pieces-modern-classical-music/

On Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 12:58:33 PM UTC-10, Néstor Castiglione wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 2:40:43 AM UTC-8, Andy Evans wrote:
> > As title.....
> >
> > You feel jaded, bored, familiar with all the stuff you usually listen to, or whatever.
> >
> > For instance, do you challenge yourself with something new e.g. new music, or go for some kind of comfort music to cheer up your spirits?
> I don't think I ever feel bored with my musical choices. Within the panoply of styles and genres that loosely comprise my "classical" collection, there's plenty to keep me busy pretty much until my final breath. (Hopefully arriving MUCH later than sooner, please!) Often I'll go through days or weeks-long obsessions with a particular work, composer, performer, etc. Those alone keep me from being bored.
>
> If I'm not feeling anything classical, I have a lot of other genres to draw upon. I'm a big collector of Japanese prewar popular music: mostly swing, tangos, "blues" (the Japanese version shares little with the American one aside from the name), and shin min'yō (sort of Westernized Japanese folk music). I also have large collections of Latin American pop music from the 1950s–1980s (for sentimental reasons as I grew up hearing it), easy-listening instrumentals, free jazz from the 1960s, experimental music, private-press new age music, and 1980s J-pop (or "city pop" as it's anachronistically referred to now).

Concerning "...Japanese prewar popular music...", according to Nagahara's 2017 book "Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and its Discontents":

"...The postwar enka was primarily the product of an invented connection to the past, including its supposed Meiji ancestor, and therefore should be considered to be a largely unrelated phenomenon.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tokyo_Boogie_Woogie/LPGGDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22primarily%20the%20product%20of%20an%20invented%20connection%20to%20the%20past%22

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On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 2:40:43 AM UTC-8, Andy Evans wrote:
> As title.....
>
> You feel jaded, bored, familiar with all the stuff you usually listen to, or whatever.
>
> For instance, do you challenge yourself with something new e.g. new music, or go for some kind of comfort music to cheer up your spirits?

(Recent Y. upload):

"did you just say classical music is boring?! (playlist)"

On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 3:55:31 AM, JohnGavin wrote:
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> My advice would be to stop listening to music for a while. Take 1 or 2 weeks off, or a month.
> Do other things - meditate, go outdoors, etc.

Exactly what I do. Long walks or hikes over the course of a week or fortnight always does the trick. And the music sounds so much better on the flipside.

On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 4:37:23 AM, Chris J. wrote:
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> There is always my good friend Johann S. Bach.

My second recommendation has been suggested hereupon as well, by Chris J. The palette cleanser par excellence, J.S. Bach!

On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 7:36:00 AM, Henk wrote:
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> The standard remedy in my case, is to go back to the days of Cherkassky, Fischer,
> Friedman, Godowsky, Haskil, etc. - when music was still allowed to breathe and music-
> making was still an art instead of a craft.

What are yr favorite Cherkassky recordings, HvT?

On 5/24/2022 7:34 PM, Oscar wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 3:55:31 AM, JohnGavin wrote:
>>
>> My advice would be to stop listening to music for a while. Take 1 or 2 weeks off, or a month.
>> Do other things - meditate, go outdoors, etc.
>
> Exactly what I do. Long walks or hikes over the course of a week or fortnight always does the trick. And the music sounds so much better on the flipside.

I am familiar with being anxious, sad, happy, etc. But I don't recall the last time I was bored. I wonder if depression can manifest as boredom.

On Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 5:46:00 PM UTC-7, Frank Berger wrote:
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> I am familiar with being anxious, sad, happy, etc. But I don't recall the last time I was bored.
Please, tell us about _your_ sex life.

On 5/24/2022 9:01 PM, Oscar wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 5:46:00 PM UTC-7, Frank Berger wrote:
>>
>> I am familiar with being anxious, sad, happy, etc. But I don't recall the last time I was bored.
> Please, tell us about _your_ sex life.

Not getting it. (Your referring to my sex life, that is.)

On Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 8:54:08 PM, Frank Berger wrote:
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> Not getting it. (Your referring to my sex life, that is.)

It was a bad joke.

I was in Dallas last month. Sorry I did not write to you. Ended up with a day off and took in a performance of Kavakos conducting DSO in Prokofiev Symphony No. 6, a rarely performed work on these shores. I thought it was very good. Just excellent enough hearing it in person. I hope you are doing well in '22.

On 5/25/2022 3:16 PM, Oscar wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 8:54:08 PM, Frank Berger wrote:
>>
>> Not getting it. (Your referring to my sex life, that is.)
>
> It was a bad joke.
>
> I was in Dallas last month. Sorry I did not write to you. Ended up with a day off and took in a performance of Kavakos conducting DSO in Prokofiev Symphony No. 6, a rarely performed work on these shores. I thought it was very good. Just excellent enough hearing it in person. I hope you are doing well in '22.

Living in Baltimore for almost 10 years. I hardly remember Dallas. I used to go to hear the DSO all the time. The Meyerson is across the street from the Fed. I'd just work late and walk over. Very convenient. I'm sure I heard Nadja Solerno-Sonnenberg play the Barber concerto at least twice. I wonder if it is popular elsewhere as it is in Dallas. Maybe that was Litton's influence. I recall are constant swaying with the music throughout the performance. Some people don't like that. Now that I think of it, I recall former assistant conductor Keri-Lyn Wilson conducting with the same mezmerizing swaying. I really would be annoying if Wilson conducted the Barber with Sonnenberg and neither could stand still. Ha Ha.

We are celebrating the birth of a great grandson a month or so ago. We just found out grandson@ #2 and wife are expecting in September.

On Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 2:13:50 PM, Frank Berger wrote:
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> We are celebrating the birth of a great grandson a month or so ago. We just found out
> grandson #2 and wife are expecting in September.

Mazel tov!!

On February 1, Andy Evans wrote:
> You feel jaded, bored, familiar with all the stuff you usually listen to, or whatever.
> For instance, do you challenge yourself with something new e.g. new music, or go for some kind of
> comfort music to cheer up your spirits?

Try the modern incarnations of the great composers -

John Williams --> Beethoven (the Star Wars score is Ludwig's 10th symphony)
Chick Corea --> Chopin
Mcoy Tyner --> Rachmaninoff (crashing chords, lively rhythms)
Miles Davis --> Brahms (emotionally, if not structurally)
Steve Reich --> Bach (consider the organ a percussion instrument)
Hans Zimmer --> Debussy (have you heard the Dune score?)
Philip Glass --> ??

If Vivaldi returned from the Hereafter, he'd write this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzFGBOeL0Xk

--
Rich

On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 2:40:43 AM UTC-8, Andy Evans wrote:
> As title.....
>
> You feel jaded, bored, familiar with all the stuff you usually listen to, or whatever.
>
> For instance, do you challenge yourself with something new e.g. new music, or go for some kind of comfort music to cheer up your spirits?

(Recent Y. upload):

"Classical Music Is NOT Boring"

On Friday, March 4, 2022 at 9:05:52 PM UTC-8, gggg gggg wrote:
> On Friday, March 4, 2022 at 8:50:45 PM UTC-8, gggg gggg wrote:
> > On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 2:40:43 AM UTC-8, Andy Evans wrote:
> > > As title.....
> > >
> > > You feel jaded, bored, familiar with all the stuff you usually listen to, or whatever.
> > >
> > > For instance, do you challenge yourself with something new e.g. new music, or go for some kind of comfort music to cheer up your spirits?
> > (Y. upload):
> >
> > César Franck - Nocturne pour Contralto et Orchestre - Christa Ludwig, Daniel Barenboim 1976
> (Y. upload):
>
> Cesar Franck - Nocturne [v: Elly Ameling -- pf: Rudolf Jansen]

(Y. upload):

César FRANCK - Nocturne (Louis de Fourcaud) - Bruno LAPLANTE, baryton