I fell in love with classical (Longhair) music as a kid. I was supposed to laugh at the cartoon antics on screen but I found I liked the music!
The author references "Scheherezade" in the article. I was exposed to that wonderful work through a TV cartoon called "Shazam" (two kids from Maine encounter a genie) in the late 1960s.
“I fell in love with classical (Longhair) music as a kid.”
Same here, maybe only 8 years old.
It opened my brain and made me look at the world, and history.
“I fell in love with classical (Longhair) music as a kid.”
I did as well though I don’t recall the exact circumstance. I do remember that my parents gave me a complete recording of the opera Carmen at age 11 which then I proceeded to listen to once a week in its entirety for two years. 50 years later I was commuting between Southern California and Nevada late at night and a 1938 French recording of the opera was playing on satellite radio and I found I remembered every single note as I hummed along.
The love of classical music also impelled me to learn the piano and that broadened my musical horizons further.
Me, too! I especially love the Baroque Era. Bach is my favorite composer.
Soli Deo Gloria!
That was part of the model of those. Music for the parents, and to claim it’s got “culture”, cartoon for the kids. And of course all the music was in the public domain, never underestimate the lure of free music. Because of that multiple generations got their introduction to classical from Bugs and the gang.