Yes: substance, works that offered challenge without being incomprehensible, works that clearly had something to say, even if I couldn't articulate, or even fully conceive, what that something was.
In music, I was making that discovery at just about the same time I was seeing 2001 and reading Tolkien. It was serious orchestral music - symphonies, mostly - that won me over. It was over a decade later, in my mid-20s actually, before I began to really appreciate more than the occasional lighter work of chamber music. I blame the over-refined academic performing style common in those days for a lot of the delay.
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Date: 2019-12-23 04:21 am (UTC)In music, I was making that discovery at just about the same time I was seeing 2001 and reading Tolkien. It was serious orchestral music - symphonies, mostly - that won me over. It was over a decade later, in my mid-20s actually, before I began to really appreciate more than the occasional lighter work of chamber music. I blame the over-refined academic performing style common in those days for a lot of the delay.