I feel fortunate to have been exposed to classical music all my life. For the longest time, my cousin was a ballerina. I may not have recognized the impact that would have at the time but going to all those ballet performances got me cultured. I didn’t realize how much until just a few years ago. A channel on FiOS TV would broadcast ballet perfomances every week. As I surfed by, I’d stop for a moment to take note of the music or the cosutmes or the configuration of the dancers [typically numbers and genders mix] and be able to identify the ballet being shown. Like a parlor trick this would slightly amaze my friends and family. But I digress. Here is the last stack of classical for now, but there will be lots more in a decade or two.
Tritsch Tratsch Polka. Maybe it is my German heritage but I’ve always been fond of the occasional Polka. You’ll see.
Piano concerto No. 1
Dance Of The Comedians
Turkish March
O Fortuna. My CD of this has the english adaptation of the lyrics. I say adaptation because it was not a literal translation. They are pretty interesting. At one point I had it memorized. It went something like this:
O fortune
like the moon you are changing
Ever waxing and waning
Hateful life
first opresses and then soothes as fancy takes it
Poverty and power, it melts them like ice
Fate
Monstrous and empy
You whirling wheel, you are malevolent and well being is in vain
and always fades to nothing, shadowed and veiled
you plague me
now through the game
I bring my bare back to your villiany
What do you think about that?
Orpheus In The Underworld
I bet you all recognized that even if you didn’t know it was Offenbach.
In the Hall Of The Mountain King