I was studying last weekend (because it’s finals this week) and so I set out to Barnes and Noble because ______ knows that I can’t study at home with so many distractions. I put a blank because I’m not sure who knows. -__-”. Buddha knows? God? Heaven? You fill it in.

Anyhow, I decided to listen to music according to genre, Classical! Because if it was anything else, I might start singing along. Sometimes I get “classical” music mixed up, because it’s classical because it’s intruments playing, but it’s different from the time period the music is in. I realized that most of my music was Russian or American, romantic and contemporary, with Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and then Copland and Gershwin. And then I had my asian classical music….Butterfly Lovers and Yellow River.

However, instead of studying, sometimes I felt lost in the music. Many of the music pieces I have, I’ve played before. And they are all reeeeeeeeally really good! Aaaah…..I want to play in an orchestra again….maybe I will join La Primavera again next year if the meetings are still being held here.

Here are some of my favorites.

Rhapsody in Blue, Finlandia, Music from Empire of the Sun (John Williams), Serenade for Strings, Russian Easter Overture, Scheherazade, The Firebird Suite, No Doubt String Quartet, Four Seasons.

I need to start beefing up my classical music genre section….mmhm.