Return of Memoryfest - Day 4/31
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bironic4. Kindergarten/Elementary School
In the living room of our old house, there was about a foot or a foot and a half of space between the side of the oatmeal-upholstered couch and the wall beneath the bay windows. In the corner sat the left half of a pair of old stereo speakers, tall and narrow, with wood veneer, a beige mesh front and a black brand label attached to the bottom corner. When I was little and my mom played a record, I would sometimes wedge myself in between the couch and the wall with my face right in front of the speaker, listening, sometimes scratching my nails lightly down the mesh. I'm pretty sure she told me not to do it, but I did anyway. I remember lying there on the carpet one sunny afternoon, happy and peaceful, while Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits played, humming to the familiar melodies of "Mrs. Robinson" and "I am a Rock" and "Scarborough Fair."
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mer_duff's idea: You can listen to a live version of "Scarborough Fair" on YouTube (only slightly off-key) for atmosphere.
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In the living room of our old house, there was about a foot or a foot and a half of space between the side of the oatmeal-upholstered couch and the wall beneath the bay windows. In the corner sat the left half of a pair of old stereo speakers, tall and narrow, with wood veneer, a beige mesh front and a black brand label attached to the bottom corner. When I was little and my mom played a record, I would sometimes wedge myself in between the couch and the wall with my face right in front of the speaker, listening, sometimes scratching my nails lightly down the mesh. I'm pretty sure she told me not to do it, but I did anyway. I remember lying there on the carpet one sunny afternoon, happy and peaceful, while Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits played, humming to the familiar melodies of "Mrs. Robinson" and "I am a Rock" and "Scarborough Fair."
ETA: Stealing
mer_duff's idea: You can listen to a live version of "Scarborough Fair" on YouTube (only slightly off-key) for atmosphere.About the Memoryfest
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Date: Jan. 4th, 2007 06:06 pm (UTC)It was probably something like Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (which I know probably isn't really "classical" music, but back then anything that was wasn't jazz or easy listening -- rock didn't enter our house for a very long time -- was classical).
Anyway, I can clearly remember being amazed that one could listen to this kind of music any time -- my dad listened to the local classic music station (WRR) a lot and it was the first time I truly realized you could buy this kind of music in a store and hear it whenever you wanted -- you didn't need a radio.
I don't really know why this was such a revelation to me -- maybe it's because not a single other person we knew listened to classical music.