GREAT feeling...we all get it

[keokime]

Don't you just love that feeling that you get when you hear a song or piece for the first time, and you say to yourself how much you liked it? You can't wait to hear it again! Wow, what an awesome feeling. I felt that way after listening to the 'loose canon' by the LA Guitar Quartet. So lovely. Just a thought. Good day, or more properly, good night!

[serge urtizberea]

I remember five or six years ago listening to the CBC and hearing an unknown piece that I could have sworn was Beethoven. Sure enough, after it was over, the host said it was one of the Rasumovsky quartets. I was pretty happy with myself, as you could imagine. My sister wasn't all that impressed, though, but she was into the whole Kurt-Cobain-is-God-and-Moist-rocks phase, so she couldn't care less about ol' Ludwig. Grew out of that fairly quickly, though, and started listening to some of my cds. My brother was into the Beatles at the time, so he didn't much care either that I could identify Beethoven by the qualities in his music alone. My dad was impressed, however. Oh, memories...<P>Of course, there was the time I'd first seen Robin Hood (Students' Council leadership camp, Oct. 1995). That movie affected me like no movie (save Immortal Beloved) I'd seen before, and I don't know why. The score and that Bryan Adams song were etched in my mind forever, and I pine for that feeling again. <P>Otherwise, I tend to forget what it was like to hear a piece for the first time. So wish that weren't the case.

[ReedMan]

I vividly recall receiving Beethoven's 9 symphonies on LP's as a Christmas present when I was around 13. Listening to each one was like doors opening in my mind and a feeling of illumination to new ideas. At the time, I was taking clarinet lessons from the principal clarinetist of the Florida Symphony and I was eager to learn more about this amazing art form. That desire remains and will always.