Today is the reveal for Erin Prais-Hintz' Challenge of Music. The challenge this year was music with no words, or instrumental. I chose Holst "The Planets".
I have always loved music, mostly contemporary, although my dad and I would play a game in the car where I would have to name the music that was playing and of course, he wasn't playing Led Zeppelin! But I did gain an appreciation for all sorts of music. TV shows of the 70's like Lawrence Welk (we watched this with my grandmother all the time!!!) or Hee Haw (yep, even Hee Haw had music!) allowed me to learn about different music. It wasn't until I took a college course in Classical Music (we called it Clap for Credit) that I gained a real appreciation for instrumental, classical music.
In this class we learned about Gustav Holst and "The Planets." This 7-movement piece was written between 1914-1916 and each movement is about one of the planets in the solar system - not including Earth, and…
I have always loved music, mostly contemporary, although my dad and I would play a game in the car where I would have to name the music that was playing and of course, he wasn't playing Led Zeppelin! But I did gain an appreciation for all sorts of music. TV shows of the 70's like Lawrence Welk (we watched this with my grandmother all the time!!!) or Hee Haw (yep, even Hee Haw had music!) allowed me to learn about different music. It wasn't until I took a college course in Classical Music (we called it Clap for Credit) that I gained a real appreciation for instrumental, classical music.
In this class we learned about Gustav Holst and "The Planets." This 7-movement piece was written between 1914-1916 and each movement is about one of the planets in the solar system - not including Earth, and…