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I'm more of a casual consumer of classical music, but I'm gonna pick up some Phillip Glass and Kronos Quartet soon. There is some on vinyl in my Dad's antique shop. I need a better record player though, mine feedsback and plays too fast.
I see they have Baby Einstein Mozart, and certainly Mozart and Beethoven will never die. You could probably include Tchaikovsky and Bach in there too.
But it will be a shame if the next generation has never heard Liszt, Orff, Stravinsky, and others.
When people here Beethoven or Mozart they think it is very beautiful sounding or very pretty, and that is what they seem to relegate classical music to. But people don't realize that a lot of classical music can be much more intense, and at times chaotic.
The tradition of classical music is becoming lost though. High schools mainly have brass and woodwind orchestras, which is a shame. Cartoons used to have great instrumental compositions accompanying them. I love the music in old looney toons and the like. The Marx brothers movies had very much the same sort of stuff. I believe in A Day at the Races Chico plays a very powerful Rachmaninoff piece.
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