Classical Music

Recently I have come to appreciate classical music at a much larger scale. My favorite composers would have to include Beethoven, Bach, Tchkaiovsky, Mendelssohn, and Mozart just to name a few. Classical music is sensational, revitalizing, and even comical if you listen close enough. I believe no other genre of music can compare. When you listen to the music you decide the story behind the song, which strongly encourages creativity. Classical music reminds me of art where each brush stroke is added slowly until the colorful collage of colors come together to form a beautiful picture. So it is with each individual instrument where they slowly come together to build up to the pivotal point of the song where the picture and story sync together as one. Paul and I were discussing an unfortunate disappointment in the media. That is media taking advantage of great works of art and destroying the essence of the song, and the ability of the viewer to make it their own. I believe classical music should be associated with elegance and beauty such as in a ballet where both of these crucial elements are present. An example of the media taking advantage of a beautiful classical piece was when Nike used Mozart's Requiem as the background music for the much anticipated end of the game. Unfortunately, when I do hear Mozart's Requiem I associate it with basketball and Nike shoes, which I do not believe was the intent of the piece when Mozart composed it. However, on the other side of the argument some people have not had many opportunities to hear or make use of classical music, so ads can sometimes help those who have never explored Classical music to do so. If you look at other advertisements they use today's most popular musical artists to appeal to the viewer as hip and cool...such as rap, which I think evoke feelings that aren't as encouraging as feelings that are stemmed from Classical music, any thoughts?