What introduced you to classical music?

[Eve]

@kelly5078

. . . but then I put on the fifth Brandenburg concerto. That was huge for me. It was like, “Holy crap, this is better than all the other stuff I’ve listened to over the years put together!”

I *love *the fifth Brandenburg Concerto! Always puts a big smile on my face.

[ministryman]

@dropzone

It wasn’t exactly common in my suburban life of pop music and show tunes, except supporting cartoons, “2001,” and Wendy Carlos’ “Switched On Bach,” which got airplay on what were called “alternative” radio stations but which were not, as imagined now, a Morrissey song followed by a song by The Smiths.

Warner Brothers - Looney Tunes

Rossini, Beethoven, Liszt, Mozart, Wagner to name a few…

The music is forever tied to the cartoons and vice versa.

[Derleth]

My first experiences were almost certainly watching Looney Tunes cartoons on Cartoon Network all day, before that network developed much of any of its own programming. Not long after that, I was listening to The Four Seasons by Vivaldi because that was just about the only music my mom would let me listen to while I did homework. Mozart came soon after that, in part from my Austrian relatives. (Mozart is enthusiastically claimed by Austrians as a major part of their culture, and they make some wonderful chocolate-covered hazelnut balls wrapped in foil bearing his picture. Because Austria, that’s why.)