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Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music

submitted by notarobot

1 decade 6 months 1 week ago

Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections. /TED

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Absolutely love this guy *promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Monday, October 21st, 2013 5:33am PDT - promote requested by eric3579.

that was fantastic.
it never really occurred to me why some people may not like classical.
from my perspective,music has always played visions in my head.
a collage of old photographs parading to the bittersweet notes,flirting with my ears.

and its not only classical.all music has this affect on me.
i assumed it did for everybody.

Used to live next door to a piano teacher who'd play Chopin everyday, continually honing his skills with those etudes-Chopin's most famous and studied output to-date, his "studies" of the craft.

When tired of hearing long-haired noodling it was time to sneak up to his kitchen window with the alto sax and blast dissonant acid-jazz riffs till he answered the door and loaded the bong-

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