Sentient LRPD
"Look upon my CD collection ye mighty, and tremble."
This is something I am struggling with. I don't know how many CDs I have, but it's definitely over 2000 - and that's not counting the big stacks of LPs and 78s.
It's nearly all "Classical", from early Medieval to last week. A little weak in Romantic (Tchaikovsky and the like), and, fortunately, very weak in the "post war modern" crap of the mid 20th century.
Young composers in that era were told by their professors that if they composed anything people would actually buy and listen to - they had failed as a modern composer.**
I have a set of CD's titled "Masterpieces of the 20th century. There's a couple of small pieces on the last CD of the set that you might want to listen to, but the rest, not so much.
More modern is much better, with some exceptions. I'm quite pleased with many works by Philip Glass - but I have a two CD set titled "50 Years of the Philip Glass Ensemble". I've put in the box a warning, "Do Not Attempt to listen to this stuff without appropriate recreational substances".
Aside from the big problems of organizing and storing the collection, I'm trying to figure out how it should be dispositioned when I finally croak.
** Sir Thomas Beecham was once asked, "What do you think of Stockhausen?". His reply was, "I don't think about Stockhausen, but I did tread in some once."
This is something I am struggling with. I don't know how many CDs I have, but it's definitely over 2000 - and that's not counting the big stacks of LPs and 78s.
It's nearly all "Classical", from early Medieval to last week. A little weak in Romantic (Tchaikovsky and the like), and, fortunately, very weak in the "post war modern" crap of the mid 20th century.
Young composers in that era were told by their professors that if they composed anything people would actually buy and listen to - they had failed as a modern composer.**
I have a set of CD's titled "Masterpieces of the 20th century. There's a couple of small pieces on the last CD of the set that you might want to listen to, but the rest, not so much.
More modern is much better, with some exceptions. I'm quite pleased with many works by Philip Glass - but I have a two CD set titled "50 Years of the Philip Glass Ensemble". I've put in the box a warning, "Do Not Attempt to listen to this stuff without appropriate recreational substances".
Aside from the big problems of organizing and storing the collection, I'm trying to figure out how it should be dispositioned when I finally croak.
** Sir Thomas Beecham was once asked, "What do you think of Stockhausen?". His reply was, "I don't think about Stockhausen, but I did tread in some once."
