Is music worth listening to?

[PopeFrancis]

I often put on Beethoven or the Beatles and instantly forget it after I listen to it. Same happens with stuff like Madonna or Boulez sometimes (though they are more memorable).

Just wondering because, if if you can't remember it, is it still worth listening to?


My landlord is always praising the White Stripes, which makes me laugh. I can't even name a single song of theirs

 

[wljmrbill]

Even music as therapy treatments solves many issues .....so surely makes it worth while as well as entertaining. Many of us who are or were performers it was an added income and great pleasure.

 

[John Watt]

Classical and progressive jazz music is listening music for me,
something that disappears from my consciousness when I'm doing something else.
Music with a rhythm or beat manages to stay with me, and I can sing along.

Now, this is just me, after a long life of playing electric guitar and singing,
but music isn't worth listening to now, when it's a challenge to your sense of self.
It's not easy, aspiring to greatness and hitting it, but then having it all taken away.
No bands, not even a local bassist, makes me a lonely and contra-contradicted player.
Not a wannabe, because I'm singing all the time and playing guitar as much as I can,
but what's the point, trying to get better by the time I'm seventy,
especially now that I've been a born-again virgin for such a long time.
Blame it on Jimi Hendrix passing away and Mr. George Benson standing up and starting to sing.
I'd still be on track with my career, if they were still laying it down.

When you say White Stripes to me, I always think of Jack Black.

 

[Krummhorn]

My parents were professional orchestra players for many years. I was born into that family and woke up every morning to classical music being broadcast on the radio.

Music is my gyroscope, both as a listener and performer; I've been a professional church organist for over 56 years and still as much in love with this craft as I was in my earliest years of just starting out.

I am the organist/pianist in a very large (1,200 members and growing) ELCA Lutheran parish where I live. We have a wonderful diversity in our worship formats for each worship service time - something for everybody to appreciate. Formal worship with robed clergy and high liturgy, to informal come-as-you-are praise worship. By "praise worship" I do not mean happy-clappy stand up and dance around in the aisles, but a worship lead by a worship team of musicians and singers to lead the people through the worship service.

I would not be able to breathe without music in my life.

Kh

 

[John Watt]

I am enhumbled, as much as I can be.
Yes, my entire stage attitude emanates from growing up,
singing in the choir of a Scottish church my family helped to found.
They waited until a righteous Highland Reverend would not only attend,
for their marriage, but to remain and run the church.
They hired a professional organist and choir director,
and bought a new Hammond organ, back in the late fifties.
I still like to brighten the corner wherever I am,
but that's a fading light, as I look towards my final sunset destiny.

Brighten the corner where you are, brighten the corner where you are.
Somewhere out in harbour someone's stuck upon the bar,
brighten the corner where you are.

No church made of stone and wood ever fell from heaven to earth.
Jus'sayin'.

 

[Ella Beck]

My parents were professional orchestra players for many years. I was born into that family and woke up every morning to classical music being broadcast on the radio.

Music is my gyroscope, both as a listener and performer; I've been a professional church organist for over 56 years and still as much in love with this craft as I was in my earliest years of just starting out.

I am the organist/pianist in a very large (1,200 members and growing) ELCA Lutheran parish where I live. We have a wonderful diversity in our worship formats for each worship service time - something for everybody to appreciate. Formal worship with robed clergy and high liturgy, to informal come-as-you-are praise worship. By "praise worship" I do not mean happy-clappy stand up and dance around in the aisles, but a worship lead by a worship team of musicians and singers to lead the people through the worship service.

I would not be able to breathe without music in my life.

Kh

I didn't grow up in that sort of musical background. But from an early age songs have been very important to me, and although I am also very fond of literature and poetry, I think, like you, that I wouldn't get much out of life if I didn't have music. It has certainly transformed my retirement.

I find it hard to think that the OP instantly forgets the music listened to - I find that even if I do so, my brain will play it again for me in the dead of night.

 

[elderpiano]

I often put on Beethoven or the Beatles and instantly forget it after I listen to it. Same happens with stuff like Madonna or Boulez sometimes (though they are more memorable).

Just wondering because, if if you can't remember it, is it still worth listening to?


My landlord is always praising the White Stripes, which makes me laugh. I can't even name a single song of theirs

I don't think the real Pope Francis listens to the Beatles or Beethoven but his predecessor was more cultural and could play the piano , and needless to say he also liked Beethoven being German.

For me, playing and listening classical music is wonderful , I like to listen carefully and follow the notes and what the piece is conveying.

I have Beethoven to thank for that, because for me, listening to his music is very commanding and urgent, and its like you have to listen, and I do follow every note to the end. Its almost like listening to an Opera , you have to listen to the story to see what comes next. I explored all of his music , and love his piano concertos and violin piano sonatas. I think his music is easy to remember.

As far as the Beatles , well there simple dirge is easy to remember too.