Your Parents and their music

[Antnee]

What kind of music do your parents listen to? Did it have any kind of affect on which music you listen to mostly now? What do they think of your music?

-Tony-

[Tash]

well my mum listens to a bit of old 60's/70's/80's random stuff which can drive me a little bit insane sometimes. however due to my dad's influence on the kitchen radio she's taken to listening to classical as well. my dad listens to classical only though he's not a musician of any kind (a geophysicist for that matter) so i think that just haveing the kitchen radio playing classical since i was about 14 quickly led to my rejection of today's pop/rap/techno/etc. music and continual listening of classical. however i think it more came from myself as it has been my own interest in music that has led to my now obsession with classical music!

[Peachy_Keen]

My mother tried to bring me up on her version of "the classics", which basically consisted of random things on the radio, Meatloaf and Prince. That didn't really go over too well. As far as my dad goes, I never knew he was very interested in music until we got a nice stereo and I had bought some CDs from The Doors, Led Zeppelin, etc. I think he sort of "rediscovered" them, which would explain the sudden disappearance of my latest CD purchases into his car stereo. This came with the rather unfortunate side effect of Scottish/other kinds of "folk"ish music, most of which hurts my ears.

I'll pretty much listen to anything (that hasn't been written in the past few years), but when I have a chance to sit down and actually pay attention to music I listen to classical. It's what got me interested in playing the piano.

[donjuan]

My Mom loves Rogers and Hammerstein, so she is always humming tunes from Sound of Music, or South Pacific.

My dad likes selected pieces of classical music, but he tends to like certain phrases from certain pieces, rather than the whole thing.  As a result, his perception of the composer is really quite shallow.  For example, he likes the first  and last climax of Liszt's Les Preludes, but ignores the rest of it.

My dad turned me on to classical music.  If it werent for him, I would still be listening to Alanis Morisette, or Hanson (yeh I know, what was I thinking... )

donjuan

[DarkWind]

My dad likes Jazz, blues, and Rock, he used to like classical only a bit, but I have been very successful so far in converting him. He listens to it a lot more now. My mom is not much in to music, but usually prefers all the spanish music, and the common classical pieces, like Schubert Serenade, Chopin Nocturne, etc.

[Shagdac]

My parents listened to all sorts of music....(except rock), my father loved classical music, my Mother did too being a pianist herself. She and her friend came to visit for my sons graduation this past May, and I got out all her odl sheet music...and I was in the other room and all of the sudden I hear them singing "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, With Anyone else But me, NO, NO, NO!!!!" and my Mother is playing it on the piano! I laughed so hard, I was crying. It was really bad. But that was what was popular when she was young. It was still funny! Haha!

She gave me all her old, old piano sheet music, some of it Gershwin, and what's so funny, is the price of some of it  .15cents, 20cents! I can't believe it was EVER that cheap!

S