or even at their unfamiliarity with works I can sing in my sleep, and I now keep the snobbery of my youth to myself. In my dotage I'm just delighted that someone has just discovered a work that has long been familiar to me, even if it's something that every orchestra plays every season and every classical radio station seems to play over and over. But not everybody goes to concerts or listens to classical radio stations, and there's a reason some pieces are played over and over - it's because they're great, and they touch people. Many years ago, as a stuck-up know-it-all music major I wondered why Beethoven's 5th symphony was so popular, they play it all the time, how boring, why not more Shostakovich, blah blah blah. But eventually I turned off my musical elitism and really listened to it, and finally understood why: It's great. It's brilliant. It's revolutionary. So, whatever it is that you discovered, be proud you discovered it and that you love it. If it's that familiar it's because a lot of people love it, and it's not junk. And I apologize for the snobs.

I just love the Bossa Nova beat.
I play that indoors with my standing speakers, loud.
I have a CD player I can carry on me when I garden.
I sing along with Opera and hum along with classics.
For me, Music is Joy.

enjoying new music - or new foods, new authors, new shows, etc.

I know that I have been guilty of such snobbery in the past, and I hope that I've left those types of judgmental attitudes behind. As I've gotten older, my tastes have changed, and I try to experience things that I've never tried before - and revisit something that I may not have liked (or appreciated) when I was younger.

In other words: if you like it, then it's good!

Best to you -

Tim

Classical fans looked down there nose at Oscar Peterson because all he played was jazz! The horror.
Van Cliburn, however, said he was the best piano player he ever heard.
So, the snobs were wrong. If Cliburn think he's great, then he's great no matter what the condescending twits say.

and when I asked him who was the best guitarist ever, his answer was Prince, followed by Clapton. Wynton Marsalis plays both classical and jazz trumpet brilliantly. If you're really good at something it doesn't matter much what that something is.