[Magdalen] RIP Tom Petty

[Grace Cangialosi]

Ayer I was actually in the arms of classical music from the Time I was 8–was a terrible music snob even in high school. I remember lying on my stomach on a rug on the living room floor in front of the record player, listening to the “Emperor” Concerto over and over! It was on 78’s, and it was years before I realized that the beginning of the second movement was missing! It was also a long time before I learned who Horowitz was!

At the same time I had a piano teacher who would take me to the Community Concerts when they came to our small town. I heard Aldo Ciccolini and Samuel Sanders, among other pianists and saw the ballerina Maria Slenczenska (sp?).
Years later an uncle said he doubted seriously that Ciccolini had been there—until I showed him the program from my scrapbook!

> On Oct 3, 2017, at 11:01 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 10/3/2017 10:24:51 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> gracecan at gmail.com writes:
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> David,  I’d never heard of him, either, until yesterday. But then, I’ve 
> never kept up  with the rock music world.
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> Amen.
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> I grew up liking the prevailing jazz popular music, much  interpreted
> through the "Big Bands".  I recall the adulation given to  appearances
> of such as Benny Goodman, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Duke 
> Ellington, etc. on the UW-Madison Campus.  It was almost like  that
> given the Beatles a generation later.
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> But when I heard rock and realized it was replacing the music that
> had been popular from WW-1 through WW-2, I opted out and into
> the waiting arms of classical music.
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> David S.
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