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    1. More classical music stuff
    2. Vee L. Housman
    3. Dear Folks, I know that a couple of months ago I moaned and groaned to you that my TV was bugging me. It had to do with my favorite classical music channel that plays wonderful music without any commercials or any commentator's voice regarding the music about to be played. It was so perfect for me to listen to as I read my murder mystery books and so perfect when I went back to my computer to work on editing my stories. But the one thing that bugged me was the written commentary on the screen about the composer or the artist or the orchestra. My current eye glasses didn't allow me to read such fine print and I could only guess who any of them were. That's when I got up the courage to ask my next door neighbor Ken if he would move my TV closer to my easy chair so that I could read everything. He was only too glad to do it. For only a day or two I was in heaven. I could read more clearly the commentary but it didn't take long before I realized that I still couldn't read every word in the fine print. However, what I kept reading bugged me more than before. Let's say that the composer was unknown to me and I was interested in his history/biography. But no matter how long I listened and watched, I still didn't have a clue who he is/was or what time frame he lived in. For the most part the commentary was about the orchestra that was playing the music and all of the conductors who had ever been associated with it. I could go on and on (which I've already done) but I want someone to move my TV back where it originally was. I know that I still can't make out the fine print but at least I won't have to put up with trivia that I have no interest in. Note: BTW, at this moment in my office I'm hearing the beginning passionate passages of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Dit dit dit DAH! vee

    05/07/2005 06:36:22