I didn't appreciate Mahler until listening to stereo LPs.
I'm new to this group, and probably will make a fool of myself. And, horror upon horrors, I have no particular preference for composers. I was taught music should be judged on its own, and not by who wrote it. Performance of a piece is another matter.
I'm an Old Fud, whose introduction to classical music was listening to Enrico Caruso on 78 rpm Victor Red Seals, played on a wind-up Victrola using cactus needles - - and whose first opera was Carmen, in the Met, with Risa Stevens.
I'm new to this group, and probably will make a fool of myself. And, horror upon horrors, I have no particular preference for composers. I was taught music should be judged on its own, and not by who wrote it. Performance of a piece is another matter.
I'm an Old Fud, whose introduction to classical music was listening to Enrico Caruso on 78 rpm Victor Red Seals, played on a wind-up Victrola using cactus needles - - and whose first opera was Carmen, in the Met, with Risa Stevens.