markharr wrote:passionflower wrote:Music has the power to change your state of mind and mood and can be used in an overstimulating manner which is very stressful to the body. ( which is why it is used to accompany exercise ) If a plant is placed near a CD player and rock music is played on it, the plant will grow in a fast chaotic manner. Water molecules in a plant exposed to Rock and Roll music show bazaare and hideously abnormal distortions under the microscope, and we all know our own bodies are mostly water
Rock and Roll ( and jazz ) musicians are notorious for alcoholism, drug addiction and immorality. They don't age very well, either. Both Jazz and Rock and Roll promote a sensuously enjoyable form of musical entertainment that tends to "loosen" people up and and encourage the lowering of sexual inhibitions and the increase of passion. Wasn't it Elder Cook who said that Mick Jagger told him, while travelling on an airplane, that the whole purpose of his music was to get teen age kids to have sex and lots of it?
I love Jazz music. Sigh....
I used to passionatetely love opera and could shed tears at a good aria. I had singing lessons from the best vocal teachers money could buy, could sing fluently in four languages ( not including dutch and english ) and even tried out for the San Francisco opera while still a teenager ( I didn't make it, of course) But as I have gotten older and hopefully wiser I just can't stand going to the opera anymore. I didn't use to take it so seriously how wicked so many of the characters are, how sordid the plots, how tragic the endings, with no redeeming social value to offer. People 's passions run wild, and they seem helpless in committing murder, fornication, adultery and engaging in prostitution. It was fine art, and I didn't think anything else mattered. My favorite Opera was "The Medium" by Gian Carlo Menotti. The last time I watched it, I just couldn't stand how it ended with this maniac lady, driven to insanity in just a few days by fear, shoots and murders a poor innocent deaf mute gypsy boy, breaking the heart of her only daughter who loved him, but not before she cruelly threw him out onto the street to fend for himself ( he worked for her and treated her like a most beloved mother ). Oh well, it's opera, right? So what if a woman and her lover are murdered by her circus clown husband? As long as sings all about it in magnificent Italian, we all had a good time!
I know there's a handful of amusing light operas out there, but after seeing Porgy and Bess last year ( need I say more? ) I was so sickened by the low life characters' soap opera lives being almost celebrated by the incredibly fabulous score, I told my DH I had finally had enough, and even if there are a handful of light and amusing operas out there, I no longer want to listen to or see opera anymore.
I really am fond of the LIbera boys. Anbody ever heard them sing? Just check out Libera on Youtube. I wish I could hear these boys at a live performance.
Very insightful. Thank you.
What are your thoughts on smooth Jazz, or light Jazz? I uses to listen to a smooth jazz station here in Salt Lake County in my car until they changed the format about a year ago. I found it helped me not drive as aggressively.
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE Smooth Jazz.
I know it's kind of a newer thing, sort of a like specialty jazz. Right? Yes, i admit it slows one down, but in doing so, has a loosening up and mild altering effect.
