Music is important for both my wife and I, both in terms of listening as well as performing. our focus is definitely on classical music. It is also very much a journey, in discovering and starting to appreciate composers and repertoire.
My wife is an excellent pianist, she encouraged me to pick up singing more seriously. So since 2003 I started to take voice lessons. Practicing of new pieces, is a very nice activity as we both need to work hard. Mostly I sing German songs, Schubert, Schumann and currently busy working on Beethoven songs. We have club of about 20 and we take turns to host a chamber concert about 5x a year. This very much makes that one practices!
We visit the Amsterdam concert hall very regularly.
I don’t know much about pop, rock music.
Have adopted modern ways of listening to music and have no record player anymore...
Also in terms of music performance I typically prefer musicians to use state of the art tools rather than use the tools from the days the music was composed.
I am used to the fact that classical music is looked at as something as a niche and strange. Nevertheless, wanted to share my story. Thanks for asking Peter.
