[ENC 1101] A topic of my own choosing II

One thing I do know is that, what you are exposed to as a child tends to stay with you when you are an adult.I agree that many of us who grew up with "pop" music liked pop music (and I also like/liked the Beatles), and like Jean-(LV) Michel, I have been exposed to a lot of music over my 51 years, and would really consider all music part of one big body of music. I rather think that all music is inspired and draws from other music. Although most younger people's exposure to classical may now be as background to films, at least it is still there.I will also admit that most of what I like about music is its arrangement. One song can be arranged in several ways, and will sound different every time. I have heard "Switched On Bach", and "Disco to the Classics." As silly as some of these things are, they do get people to listen to an idea originated by someone a long time ago. I guess the best I can do is draw upon my experience, and say that my mother exposed me to Broadway Plays and Classical Music, and dad exposed me to Jazz and Rhythm and Blues. I, of course, grew up in the 60's and 70's (and some of the 80's), and was exposed to all sorts of popular music. I guess the point is, that as I have grown older, all the music I have been exposed to, now means much more to me in the context of having let it "simmer" in my sprit over these years. I appreciate all music much more, including the "classics." And when I hear a very original and creative arrangement of something, especially jazz from "The Great American Songbook" I have to elicit a joyous smile, when I realize a very talented soul created something that has literally appealed to generations.The same goes for reading. A good novel and I will become one until I have finished reading it. I find myself not being able to "put the book down" until it is either very late at night or the book is finished. I imagine this came from my mother exposing me to reading at a very young age. There are certainly times when I find that I wish I could throw the TV out the window, and just read a good book. However, I do find that there are some good movies on TV, some of them based upon "classical" literature. I do like these, "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen being one of them.So, I suppose I could say that nothing ever really goes out of style, it just gets recycled in a newer way for the audience of today. "King Kong" is just about to be out in its 3rd or 4th incarnation, and will expose kids of today to a movie that originally debuted in the 1930's. And yes, I also like a movie channel here in America called "Turner Classic Movies" where you are exposed to the vast repertoire of movies that have been made since the early days of American movie making in Hollywood (California).What is that saying, which I think was written by Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 1:9)And any great work of art, be it music, or literature, will by its own merits, last forever, one way or another...