Is classical music out of date

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when you hear the phrase

classical music what’s the image that

pops into your head let me take a guess

you think of the 18th century where

women wore corsets and danced around in

a ballroom to elegant classical music

you will also think ugh classical music

that outdated stuff

well in a way you’re right it is a very

old style of music

but does it change the fact that it has

lived on to be so great for the past few

centuries

no recently i went to a concert

in memory of beethoven’s birth 250 years

ago

when i looked around me i saw that all

the seats were filled that’s when i

realized how many classical music fans

there still were to this day

including me recently i also found a

very interesting and entertaining video

showing a massive professional orchestra

playing sounds coming from different

electronic devices such as a computer

closing getting a message on your phone

and much more

at the end of the video the orchestra

put all of the sounds together and made

it into a waltz composition

this ties together classical art and

modern technology in a perfect way

there’s a very famous concert called the

vienna new year concert and it happens

every year on january 1st to celebrate

the new year

this year the experience was more

touching than ever

because of the virus situation there

were not enough viewers to attend the

concert

so they had all of the viewers attend

online to watch the concert live

the most touching part was that 7 000

people in the audience recorded their

applause and cheering for the concert to

encourage all of the orchestra

after they finished each composition the

conductor of the concert this year

ricardo moody said something very

inspiring about how classical music

affects our daily lives

in some places music is just considered

entertainment

in fact music is more of a mysterious

mission

with the mission of making society

better music helps us perceive

joy sadness and the meaning of life

music is very effective for us to think

deeply

and it also nourishes our hearts with

health 2020 was a very difficult year

for everyone to get through

but classical music brought all music

fans back together with a positive

attitude for the start of a new year

so by now you’re probably wondering why

am i so attracted to classical music

well i started learning piano when i was

six years old

in first grade at first i didn’t really

understand

how how hard you had to try and put so

much of an effort into

learning something new ever since

classical music became a passion of mine

in second grade it stayed pretty much

the same and i would just do my daily

practice and let it go after i had

finished

except slowly i started to try and get

away from playing piano because i was

bored of all the songs that i had to

learn

in third grade though there was a big

change i transferred to a new piano

teacher

this piano teacher had higher

expectations for me and i started

learning harder songs and newer

techniques

by the time i got to fourth grade my

piano teacher had started preparing me

for go to my

to go to my first piano competition i

was petrified

i was stuck to practicing and perfecting

one song that i didn’t like very much

during the competition i actually got

second place i was really surprised

that meant i got to go to singapore for

the finals in the finals i also got

second i also got second place

that felt like a big boost of energy for

me to continue pursuing classical music

this year in the beginning of grade six

i started learning classical music

theory

just as i was about to start putting all

of the knowledge that i had gained from

classical music theory into the pieces

of music i was playing

my piano teacher announced that i had

another piano competition coming up

this time i was stuck to practicing and

perfecting two songs that were really

hard for me

after i had gotten the basics done and

the techniques done

after a few weeks i started learning how

to put more emotion into the pieces of

music

that was really hard for me during the

competition though

i i was actually able to express express

all of the emotions without forcefully

having to push myself

and it all came naturally i felt really

connected with piano and classical music

for the first time

i didn’t feel that hate towards having a

practice anymore something had

definitely changed

through classical music me and my best

friend even connected better than ever

before

in the semester 2 talent show me and my

best friend jun lin

played the march militare by the

celebrated composer shubert

we’d been practicing for about one month

and it was not very smooth at the

beginning

we connected through teamwork because we

played together on the same piano

so by now i know that whatever you’re

pursuing

genuinely starts to become your passion

no matter how much you might have

disliked it in the beginning

and so now i know that when you start

something new you’ll be against it for

quite a while

and then like classical music for me you

start to realize how important your

passion is to so many other people

the beethoven concert video of

electronic sounds and the vienna new

year concert were

all great examples for me to realize how

big of an impact

classical music has in the world today

so now

if you have a passion or talent that you

know of try hard and it will all pay off

in the end

thank you

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