u/josephine________

Hi! I am a music tutor, and music history is a huge part of my lessons. I know how important it is for students to understand musical context for interpretation, and also I am a bit of a music historian myself, so I find it super helpful to teach students as much music history as possible.

This being said, I am finding an increasing number of students disinterested in any sort of classical music, let alone music history. I especially have this one student who just started teaching elementary students, but has no grasp on any basics of music history, but is more interested in rag and movie soundtracks. I have taught those to him for years - I usually teach what the student is interested in as much as possible, but I know I actually have to teach him classical music at some point 😅

What is a good starting point for exposing my disinterested students to classical music? I usually start through the eras, and teach forms as well quite early. What approach can I take that will help students get excited about classical music? What music listening pieces have you all had success with?

Right now I am at:

Baroque - Some Bach suites, Four Seasons, Bach Keyboard concerti
Classical - No idea, as I am not super keen on the era
Romanticism - Some Chopin, Rachmaninoff PC 2 and 3,
Impressionism - Debussy, Satie

Could I get some help for music listening recommendations?

Hi all! I am looking at buying a neo since my old 2020 M1 Air has broken. I use my computer for Teams meetings daily, I do some light video and audio editing (I have a YouTube channel that I upload background music onto). The editing is basically uploading the audio, tweaking it a bit, uploading some light video for the background, and uploading it to YouTube. I would also like to play WOW with my husband, and I used my Air for that, it worked great (also 8GB). Would I be able to do all of these things on a Neo? Also, how long is the projected life of a Neo? Can I expect the same life as my Air?

I am an experienced classical musician and my husband is not. He is not super interested in classical music, as he has no context for it. We are planning several weekend trips this year, and he said we will go when/where I choose based on what classical concerts are there at the time. I would love to take him to see Rach PC 2, it is my favourite piece, and I saw it this spring at Musikverein in Vienna this year, and it was a life-altering experience. Unfortunately, no one is performing it in Europe anywhere we’d like to be going this year, or during a time that works for us. My secret objective is to get him hyped about classical music too! He so far likes the very chaotic bits of Shostakovich, like string quartet 8. He likes simplistic classical music (minimalism), and is a big fan of film soundtracks (Hisaishi, Zimmer).

What pieces do you think could get someone like that enthusiastic about classical music? Is there anyone else with similar experience? What worked for you?

I (F24) am in a family crisis at the moment, I am sorry this is long I just desperately need help. For context, I live in a different continent than my parents, and my brother and I moved here to leave behind a complicated family situation. My dad a VERY fundamental Christian, but he believes a lot of cult-y things, and shamed me if I didn't do the same, always stating that his friends (pastors and deans of huge Bible colleges) would never agree. My dad is also a pastor himself. I grew up in cult-y churches that were incredibly restrictive and exclusionary. I also believe my dad either is a narcissist or has incredibly narcissistic tendencies. He hit my brother and I countless times growing up, his idea of 'godly' parenting, hit my mother, the dog, etc..... He is a really dangerous person in that he is unbelieveably successful at manipulating. Given all of this, he is still my father. I call to talk to him maybe 6 or 7 times a year, that's it. Lately he has been much nicer, and these conversations, surprisingly, are just him listening or talking without judging, accusing, or manipulating. That has been two conversations in a row like that.

My mother now, is a good mom, very doting, and extremely involved in my brother and my lives. My brother is now married and living about 30 minutes away from me, however I rarely see him, as he is newly married and has his own life now.

In November, last year, I got into a relationship with someone after being friends with them for over a year. He (M24) is wonderful, and treats me incredibly well. In January, he moved countries to be closer to me, and God answered many specific prayers, providing everything we needed to start a life together. He is the exact person I need by my side in life, and I am confident that god brought us together. In January, we knew we wanted to get married. We started looking into paperwork. I told my mum just after that about him, as I wanted several months to pray about it and consider if it was a good idea and something I should move forward with. Because of my dad's control over me growing up, I never was able to make my own decisions, and just tend to rely on others. So I took 2 or 3 months just to pray about it and see if it was the right thing, and make sure I MYSELF am the one making the decision and not someone else for me. The thing is, as I prayed about dating him, I felt God showing me he was 'the one'! So not only did God right away show me it was right to date him, but also to marry. It was a fast confirmation, but one I am extremely sure of. My mum is here to visit me and my brother for 4 weeks at the moment, I have told her many things about my partner, sometimes talking for hours about him. I told my best friend, and of course, my partner also told his family. His family, and my best friend's reactions were both the same; 'When are you getting married!?', both happy and realizing the seriousness of the situation. I told my friend we hoped to have a legal wedding in the summer this year, and then have a wedding celebration with family sometime next year possibly. We got a decision back from the government incredibly quickly about a wedding date; it was supposed it take 70 days, and it ended up taking about 10. We booked a date for mid-June, and just wanted to have a private little thing with just us and 2 witnesses, and enjoy our marriage. After this, I was also notified I would be losing my job here, so it would just make sense to move in with him. Also money is quite tight and we have to save several thousand for my visa before September. I prayed about the dates when we were booking it, and everything, even circumstances seemed to line up. That was, until my mom came. I wanted her to meet him before I told her, knowing she would freak out if I told her over the phone. She came, met him, liked him, and a few days later we sat down and I said we wanted to get married, and we had the date a little over a month away. She understandably panicked. She was very upset, and I am understanding of it, however, what she said took me off guard. She told me she didn't realize how serious things were, which I thought was impossible, since the other two parties who knew most about it, knew straightaway that it meant we wanted to marry. Then, comes the trickiest part; telling my dad. Mum said we should wait until at least September to marry. Dad needs lots of time to digest things. We prayed and talked endlessly, I don't know how many hours we have spent praying and crying and trying to figure what to do in the last few weeks, and we both settled on keeping the date in June. That means I have to rush and tell everyone, which will be incredibly uncomfortable of course, but the strain that even these 3 weeks have put on my partner and I is terrible. I have felt myself spiralling with anxiety. Mum said that my testimony will be ruined, people will speak badly of me, I will lose every chance at a relationship with my dad, but the way I look at it is, I am getting married. It's not something evil, we love each other, we know it's right, and that's it.

Now, I don't want to hurt my dad, so I thought in order to keep a boundary, maybe not telling him we got married for a couple months, maybe say we are getting married in September. I know that's not the truth, but I really don't want to involve him in this joyous occasion for now. I know I messed up by not communicating clearly to the people around me, I don't really know what excuse I have for that. After 3 weeks of praying we both decided to keep the June date and not move it to September. Mum before offered me a loan to pay the visa, but honestly, the financial strain would be minute compared to the emotional strain for my partner and I. I pass out in the heat, and really get sick, and I can't be doing that without him. My room is already having viewings and will be let out on July 1, so I possibly could stay with my brother, but all the cost of fuel for my partner coming back and forth to see me would not only be a strain, but would bite into the visa costs. I think mum is about to call me (she's staying with my brother), and try to convince me again to change the date. The problem is the 1 strain on our relationship, 2 The cost 3 wanting to maintain boundaries early in the relationship 4 neither of us are convinced of moving it to Sept. We would be grudgingly and angrily delaying the marriage which would only spew more anger towards my mom for her interfering with our plans. IT's just like the quote my mom always says 'A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still'. I don't think I will change my mind, I will just be extremely upset and anxious, doing what my family wants. HOW DO I HONOUR MY PARENTS? How do you honour an abusive parent? How do I fix my lack of communication? Do I just tell everyone now straightaway? We only wanted to tell family and very close friends, as my partner and I don't really have many close friends, maybe 3 or 4.

Sorry that this is so long, I just feel the weight of the world on my shoulders. If nothing else, please pray for me.

Hi! I am looking for a camera for my husband's birthday to record some videos and take some photos for us as we travel. I would love to have some vintage style, romantic, warm photos to be able to look back in the future, sort of capturing the feeling of looking through old family photo albums. Something lofi and cheap. I really am looking in the range of 30£, as our travelling is already costing a bit!!! I have no experience with cameras but I know we both would really love to record our young life together like this! Thank you!