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Realize the compositional beauty of Rachmaninoff in Zero Age
I suppose you’ve heard that classical music apparently acts as a complementary aid to learning. It’s the type of reported notion that causes pregnant mothers to waddle around the house, a pair of headphones stretched around their baby-bloated bellies, all in order to blast Beethoven foetus-side through a strange act of audio osmosis. At least, that’s what I imagine. This brand of mind-expanding magic contained exclusively within classical music is an idea I enjoy, but find difficult to trust. It perpetuates musical elitism and feels like a desperately sown together science manufactured to make classical music more relevant to modern…