Black Folk Don't: Listen to Classical Music

Black Folk Don't is back by popular demand for a FOURTH and FINAL season!
Musicians and fans add their voices to the chorus in this episode: Do Black folk listen to classical music? These answers might surprise you!
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A special presentation of Black Public Media, the series is directed by Angela Tucker and supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

[@yellolab09]

Yeah, "that's not your cello" Fucking heartbreaking story

[@richardjones7793]

Classical music is not for your body to move, it moves your mind.

[@ee8546]

I'm black and I play the viola, I in fact love classical music and I love playing it even more. I am the best viola player in my 7th grade class. But what I don’t understand, is why other black people dislike it.

[@BIadelores]

MOST people don't like classical music all that much, it's more complicated and difficult to understand than pop music which is what most people lean towards. You can't really "vibe" to it or "bump" it or anything like that, it needs your attention otherwise you're not getting that much out of it. However specifically for black people there's probably at least some connection to the fact that (Western) classical music for most of its existence was very class-related and usually only people with a lot of money had access to it with concerns and private lessons. Black people obviously didn't have money for that, so historically they've not been given the chance to truly grow up with and appreciate it. Now people have access to all the music they could possibly want, but people will still usually lean towards the music they were given thru out their childhoods, and for most black people that music is radio pop and hip hop and r&b and all of that, because it's part of the culture. Most people are probably not going to deviate much from that. There's no push within black people to collectively embrace classical music, so that's not really like to change, en mass - But that doesn't mean black people can't like it of course, just like it's clearly not impossible for a white person to like hip hop or an Asian person to like Jazz.

[@girlmusician24]

Most people don’t like what they don’t understand.

[@lizs4796]

I agree. I always thought classical music transcended race, colour or identity. It's a universal language that lifts the soul. I love it. Im from England, but I love it when other countries around the world embrace it as well. I just watched the Korean symphony orchestra play Ravel's bolero....... fabulous.

[@trimeldaconcepcionmcdaniel5902]

A lot of Black people LIKE classical music. We even had a popular movie based on a popular opera filled with Black people: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6XHi3xtqqp7i9E

[@FlamingCockatiel]

@@BIadelores I largely agree with what you wrote, but I'm not sure about not being able to "vibe" to it. Then again, I am so unhip I'm not exactly sure what "vibing" is. The more intense, fast pieces, like the Winter Wind Etude and Russian Sailors' Dance really grip me, and I feel the beat. I admit that I've been involved with music, especially classical, from early on. I played in a rhythm band from first to third grade and concert band for five years, along with dabbling in recorder and piano, so perhaps it makes appreciating it easier. To the original comment: Thank you for playing viola. It needs more love.

[@Detroitmamma]

It is a great injustice not to expose children to various forms of music because it fosters respect for others choices and builds understanding of what other people enjoy

[@mutantbananas1]

Let's not forget Nina Simone, she was on her way to become a classical pianist but the school she applied to wouldn't let her study there, but that didn't stop her love for this music, in her recording of Love me or Leave me she sneaks in a little fugue like solo, it's something I haven't heard again and it's amazing to hear

[@tygr4161]

I’m a black guy and I listen to classical music

[@nataliek5219]

ugh. Can't believe that intro story even happened!!

[@oysteinsoreide4323]

Natalie K It's not many decades since they had apartheid in US. There is much prejudice going on. And that's both ways I guess. In Norway we had our own dark history of how we treated the Sami people.

[@johngriffiths3373]

@@oysteinsoreide4323 read about the Jim Crow laws created by the Democrats really disgusting stuff. The Nazis actual based the laws they used against the Jews on it replacing black for Jew.

[@lovedalejoyana9785]

This was great, I've been looking for "sheet music classical piano" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Jonwen Doniden Rule - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my friend got amazing results with it.

[@maggoteater2290]

I mean it was back in the day were something like this was more common thing

[@christinagilkes3499]

Ikr!!!!

[@trimeldaconcepcionmcdaniel5902]

I think the idea that Black folks don't like classical music is simply not true. My mother used to play recordings of Beethoven, Bach, and Handel to us when we were still in the crib. We also heard Bizet's "Carmen" too. At the same time we listened to classical jazz such as Duke Ellington and Count Basie. My favorite "play list" when I was a little girl was "Habanara " and the "Toreador Song" from Carmen, along with Beethoven's 5th, his Pastorale (the 6th), Bach's Toccata and Fugue, the whole William Tell Overture, "Take the A Train" , "Mood Indigo", "Satin Doll," "Take Five" and "String of Pearls." My father grew up listening to such music while he studied. My mother played pieces like that too. I, in turn, introduced every kid I helped raise into opera, jazz, blues and classical music. They all loved it. To this day I know all the words to most of the classics from Broadway, most of the older Blues and jazz, jazz, jazz and so do a whole lot of older Black people. And let us never forget the incomparable Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte in Carmen Jones: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6XHi3xtqqp7i9E

[@listenup2882]

It is rumoured that Beethoven had African ancestry.

[@West-Telecom]

@@listenup2882 And what that still doesn't make him black.That's only idiotic dishonarable blm myth.

[@lenglain]

I'm black, and I love classical music. I did NOT expect this video to have black people perpetuating the stereotype. Basically all the people in the video seemed to justify the incredulity of the cops who harassed the first guy.

[@rogerwelsh2335]

Compte Prive I agree and it’s a shame. This video did more harm than good. The girl at the 2:20 mark made such a fool of herself. You gotta have faith in human beings to be able to discount the types of responses in the video and realize race and music do not go together overall

[@abrahampalmer1153]

@@rogerwelsh2335 that young woman is extremely ignorant and misformed about music

[@elias7748]

@@abrahampalmer1153 I agree. Low key pissed me off.

[@pr-ji1ni]

I feel kind of bad for the young woman at 02:20. I really hope one day someone shares some mind-blowing classical music with her.

[@summertime9224]

This!

[@bmort1313]

I mean she’s kinda right tho. Old white dudes sitting down writing notes

[@trangwuong7689]

I got something classical to share with her.

[@lochlanfitzgerald7719]

@@bmort1313 no. legit none of the classical composers were old very little

[@jude2235]

@@bmort1313 Nonsense

[@evaosirus6055]

I’m black and I’m an opera singer. I still get crazy looks lol

[@gnozza8683]

YOU ARE PROBABLY REALLY AT IT TOO.

[@evaosirus6055]

G Nozza this sentence is missing an adjective! If you mean to be hurtful then please don’t!

[@Apagador69]

@@evaosirus6055 And this is part of what is wrong in this world. Someone forgets an adjective and the first thing people have is a snowflaky reaction. It tells a lot about the person.

[@deen77]

I'm a classically trained pianist and vocalist so I definitely listen to classical music!

[@hugod327]

By the way. Everybody is saying that Jazz was invented by the blacks but the real inventor is Beethoven. His 32nd sonata has a jazzy part (just write Beethoven's jazz on YT) and the some blacks listened to this sonata and developed the genre to the point where it is today

[@benjaminsmith2287]

Hugo D: It does sound jazzy! Beethoven is really rhythmic. I used to get in trouble going to Classical concerts and rocking to Beethoven.

[@MegaPianogenius]

Hugo D of course it wasn't invented by blacks the chords were there long before

[@hugod327]

@@benjaminsmith2287 man you rock if you really did that xD. Props to you my friend

[@bmmacking]

Went to a performing art school of all minorities we know more than him

[@naturalw33]

his beginning story reminded me of the scene in the five heartbeats where they had to sing when pulled over. for the happened in real life is heartbreaking to visualize.

[@leogolive]

We listen to damn near every type of music. Yes, we tend to gravitate certain styles, but ultimately if it sounds good we’ll bump it.

[@1234IZM]

While old school hip-hop, soul, and jazz are my favorites, I can get down with some classical and opera music. Some of my favorite songs are Delibes' Flower Duet, Chopin's Suffocation & Nocturne No. 2, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata... Btw, those cops.. really fucked up. But then, we all got stories of our encounters with them

[@jackwilmoresongs]

Black here. Studied composition for a couple of years. Composed as a hobby and was member of Montgomery County Composer's Society in Maryland / Metro DC area. Born 1949 grew up in Black family that loved classical music. My more recent love is writing spiritual songs and putting Bible verses to song. I wrote chamber works and kept up with African American composers since the 70s. I also appreciate Jazz but secondarily.

[@lavellicious]

I'm a Hip Hop artist and I bang Classical everyday!

[@nittibit6662]

There is so much more out there besides rap (trap) and r&b. Every genre has it's pros and cons.

[@abrahampalmer1153]

Indeed

[@hrep14]

Guess like a lot of people they never heard of "Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George".

[@trimeldaconcepcionmcdaniel5902]

Amen!!!!!! www.nashvillepublicradio.org/post/these-seven-black-composers-made-classical-music-history

[@thegoddessdiana9185]

I discovered him back in the early-mid1970's (1973-75) One record company had put out an lp (vinyl) of some of his recordings which I purchased. His character appeared in the movie, "Marie Antoinette" with Kirsten Dunst. There was one scene in which he is sitting with Antoinette at the harpsichord, and I think that he was present in the wedding scene as a guest..

[@roxanneswanson8305]

He was known as "Le Mozart Noir" - the black Mozart. Serious chops, that guy. He was also known for his prowess in fencing and horsemanship. He deserves to be more well known.

[@RichardCranium.]

I never heard of him until recently and I know quite a bit about classical music. 99.99% of people don't know who he is.

[@West-Telecom]

Saint Cavalier's father's white friench musician

[@rogerwelsh2335]

I’m about to go through the roof listening to the girl starting at 2:20. She actually said classical is about technicality and not musicality. She has no idea what a fool she just made of herself and showed her ignorance. Or the others who said classical is just background relaxing music show they have no exposure to it and they just perpetuate the stereotype of black people don’t listen or get classical music at all

[@abrahampalmer1153]

Sad but true everyone knows that black people in general not all but majority are a lost group of people.

[@ssssilva2473]

@@abrahampalmer1153 The majority of white people don't like classical music. Are they lost too? They listened to the opinion of black people that don't like and people who do like. I listen to white people say stupid shit about classical music frequently, but people like you love to generalize.

[@michaelconner1771]

Wtf? Social media is starting to become less sociable.

[@ianl.gutierre1341]

3:23- 3:32 Me: "ok..ok.. good.." 3:33 "Nicki Minaj" Me: "You've got to be f****ng kidding me"

[@louisxvii2137]

Duke Ellington is Jazz. George Clinton is Funk. Prince is Funk and Dance. Bob Marley is Reggae. Nicki Minaj is Rap. These people seem to confuse classical music with what they consider classic music

[@manunited1235]

Exactly

[@tr3ndkiller]

You need to develop a different set of ears to appreciate music that's not groove-based. A lot of people haven't been exposed to that sound so they think the sole purpose of music is to make you wanna dance or hum a simple tune.

[@mysteriev7071]

What about Waltzes though?

[@thegoddessdiana9185]

@@mysteriev7071 Yes! You hit the nail on the head for me. There is classical music that make you want to move...the waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, galopps, mazurkas, etc. I've been taking Viennese Waltz lessons since 2017 and I went to Vienna to attend the Ärzteball and Jägerball. There were orchestras, big bands, and combos migrating from room to room at the Hofburg where the balls were held playing different types of music from the classical waltzes and polkas to swing, quickstep, tango, and foxtrot...and the fun and sometimes zany "Fledermaus Quadrille" which was danced at 3:00am at the Ärzteball and at midnight at the Jägerball, traditionally followed by the madcap Galopp around the ballroom floor with the dance master frequently reversing the dancers' line of dance by yelling, "Anderer richtung!" The Galopp is sometimes danced to Offenbach's Can-Can music from "Orpheus in the Underworld" or a Polka Schnell. I experienced them all, but my special love was the waltz, and I will always remember, "Wiener Blut" as the first waltz I danced to in Vienna, "Radetzky March" as my last Polka, "Donauwalzer" (Blue Danube) as my last Viennese Waltz, and a downtempo, slow waltz, "Brüderlein Fein", which traditionally ends each Viennese Ball as the last slow waltz of the evening...oops morning. It was short of 5:00am.

[@frankiecrocker]

To me, classic music is, indeed, a spiritual experience. If your mind is open to it. There are so many movements that stir the senses and intrigues the mind.

[@mandrelltwitty1489]

I am studying Bach I was not always into classical music I had to mature to really get into classical music I am a blues guitarist & not to many of the brothers or sisters dig the blues any more but I love music period Classical country rock n roll

[@JoyJoy-oc7su]

I love cello

[@gabozalaba]

Ew, a violist

[@girlmusician24]

Nik Fab I agree.

[@thegoddessdiana9185]

I heard of a Black man in NYC carrying a trombone case. The cops stopped him in Midtown Manhattan thinking that it was stolen...a trombone, no less. He was a jazz player. They're so dumb they think that Black people steal any- and everything.

[@pettricktalley2846]

I’m learning how to play classical music on the piano now.

[@FlamingCockatiel]

How's it going?

[@turquoisity6555]

Just like "black folk don't watch Anime." - insane

[@MichaelWilliams-mo1vv]

Or appreciate art or go to pop concerts

[@elias7748]

iv'e never heard anyone say black people don't watch anime.

[@kierrabrossette2117]

Omg I love anime and I’m an African American woman lol

[@Detroitmamma]

Wow my parents were in concert band in high school and they introduced us to classical and jazz exclusively as young people we learned about our music later as teenagers I love classical music

[@leentune9798]

My granddaughter has been playing classical viola for 10 if her 18 years & even went to Austria with Youth Symphony & played at the Mozartorium she is a fantastic classical violist and she listens to RAP & Hip Hop & is Black like Me!

[@ervinscolebrooke8921]

Thanks for sharing ..I'm Bahamas and i listen to and play Classical Music

[@theartistscorner689]

I love classical music and was introduced to it in elementary school where they would play it softly in the hallways.

[@thegoddessdiana9185]

I retired from teaching six years ago in an inner-city school, but when I was in the classroom, I'd softly play Satie on the tape recorder as the kids were quietly working. At the time I had a principal who, from time to time at faculty meetings would mention his childhood on public assistance and he would sometimes accuse the teaching and classroom support staff of disrespecting the parents and inner-city culture. Once, there was a musical group which came to the school, The Debussy Quintet, to play for the upper grade (3rd - 5th) children. The principal announced it in the faculty meeting and pronounced the group's name in such a way that it rhymed with "fuzzy". No one in the meeting seemed to notice or care because the assistant principal, who happened to be white, did the same thing. He did this two years in a row with the "DeBUZZY" pronunciation, and it was driving me crazy, so I caught him alone on the yard after the meeting and whispered into his ear the correct pronunciation. I told him that the group was named for Claude Debussy and named some of his compositions. So he said to me, "Uh, French? Well, you know that I don't know."

[@mrcuttime22]

In relative numbers: it's true. As an absolute: clearly false.

[@marque235]

So the sound doesn't drop off at 1:08 for anyone else?

[@lunnouxhinds8464]

Classical music is fantastic. I love classical music it's one of the oldest types of music. All those great composers like Mozart. Beetovan. Bach and many more. Europe has some of the best composers in the world. How could you not love it.

[@jamilanderson601]

I've listened to classical music since I was in elementary school. Science fiction movies was my 1st exposure to classical music.

[@pipestud3corncobpuffer785]

Edmund Dede, St. Georges, William Grant Still, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Scott Joplin-all Black classical composers. But the truth is symphonic music goes back many centuries and covered a wide swath of countries and ethnic backgrounds. Did you know there were Brazilian, Spanish and Latin American classical era composers. In Europe and at the time of Mozart there were far more Bohemian and Italian composers than German. Portugal is just now experiencing a major revival with composers such as Bomtempo and Santos.

[@pennyawful861]

It's european.

[@elias7748]

Scott Joplin is no classical musician. He’s a ragtime composer.

[@West-Telecom]

Their relatives were white.They'd get that abilites from white relatives.Saint Cavalier even got his Cavaliee titul from the french father.They'd learn all this from white mysicians.Don't forget.

[@FlamingCockatiel]

@@elias7748 He liked classical music and did compose an opera or two (The Guest of Honor and Treemonisha), but the former is, alas, lost. Ragtime is a pretty good genre itself, but I find it hard to connect it with other genres. I have a copy of 50 Greats for the Piano, and Maple Leaf Rag is included among the likes of Chopin, Bach, and Debussy.

[@SpencerDavis2000]

I came for the cello. so beautiful thanks. omg those cops have some spiritual growing to do

[@PrettyTopazz]

I love a man that goes above and beyond musically 🍀❤️‍🔥

[@herbertbielefelder341]

What about SCOTT JOPLIN ?

[@elias7748]

T&hat's not classical. It is Ragtime. Or early Jazz

[@phillipbrock6215]

@@elias7748 It actually IS a form of classical music. A Ragtime is a pianistic compositional form, like an Etude, a Fugue or a Prelude. It is rigidly structured, and gifted composers and players can find much variation in it. Jazz is a blues based improvisation over a given chord structure. Ragtime composition is, at best (as regards jazz) a bridge between European pianistic compositional style, and the more free ranging jazz playing. Rag perhaps evolved into jazz, much like the French impressionistic music of Debussey and Ravel later evolved under the pen of Duke Ellington into Indigos. Mr. Joplin himself regarded his compositions, correctly, as an extension, through the lived experience of African Americans, of the European tradition. The history of western music is a glorious back and forth dialogue.

[@donworland]

Handl, Satee.....I love Pandora for baroque music. Thank you for posting this.

[@madeleinegerlach4854]

Handel is baroque, and Satie is impressionism/romantic era! :)

[@conforzo]

3:02 What he says here exposes the lady before. What makes "classical" music special is that extensive though is put into a line of melody, jazz is more of a flow of consciousness and rehearsing scales to improvise in amazing ways. And the proof is that people remember melodies even if they don't know from where it was.

[@minacciosa]

What this series needs is a truly good explanation of what makes "classical" music compelling - and so durable. Many of its milestones are centuries old and will certainly outlive the legacy of Nikki Minaj. A brief journey into the music's multi-level processes and their similarity to the narrative of a conversation would be illuminating to many.

[@kennybarnes2375]

Well said. Love your work as a violinist and conductor!

[@minacciosa]

@@kennybarnes2375 Thank you!

[@Sweet-as-banana]

I play the violin and my sister plays the cello. I've played since the 4th grade. And is the author Edward Kelsey Moore of The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat? If so, cool. Can't wait for his new book coming our next year.

[@wynmcnamara9604]

Black folk aren't stopped from listening to classical music. That's the arguement. You are segrementing yourselves. Lots of white composers loved black music. We all learn and expand from each other.

[@BIadelores]

I fucking LOVE classical music dude, I'm actually a bass player but in recent years have been thinking of practicing violin because I love Bach and Beethoven's string quartets so much!

[@elias7748]

2:20 Why was this girl hired? She even said that classicla music is "just there" and that there's no soul to it.

[@bluetortilla]

I'm white as you can see from my profile and have loved classical since I was 30 (before then- boring snooze). I always wondered why seemingly few Black people got into it (then again, jazz is just as crazy as classical and I love jazz too) and thought that was discouraging. The thing is though, not many whites like classical either. It's an eccentric and acquired taste. But I would love to see young Black people get involved with playing classical as, say, Asians have.

[@kristinedandavino7732]

Do we know the composition that the tenor sings with the pianist? The title? It is beautiful, he sings beautifully. If anyone knows. Thank you!

[@FeeLikesChriZ]

What is the piece called he is singing?

[@richardworth350]

Ellington wrote music down to be performed and improvised with by his band, and he clearly knew theory to a very high level. He is often cited as one of America's greatest composers. George Clinton relied heavily on the keyboard and arranging skills (and theoretical knowledge) of Bernie Worrell who graduated from Juilliard and Eastman and was both a classical and a jazz 'cat'. Prince clearly loves music theory (when asked what advice he'd given to Beyonce he recounted that h'ed told her to learn piano and learn her modes and scales). Prince also uses both Debussy's Dance Sacrée et Dance Profane and Ravel's introduction and Allegro as part of the sound track for Graffiti Bridge (not the greatest film maybe) but beautiful music that shows an interest way beyond the normal classical repertoire. Of course jazz musicians have always prized music theory and still do - and as far as today's music goes; try telling somebody like Thundercat that music theory is the preserve of old white men.....Then there's Herbie Hancock - from playing Mozart through jazz with Miles to 'Rockit'. And if you read Miles' autobiography he recounts that in the 60s he was really listening to a lot of composed so called 'classical' music at the same time that he was changing direction, even as he was also falling under the influence of Hendrix, Sly and Santana.

[@bitter-sweet-music]

*Reads title* *looks at my 6 hour classical playlist* Uh huh, yep...totally

[@phillipbrock6215]

Scott Joplin and Louis Moreau Gottshalk were among North America's first "classical" (meaning in the European idiom) composers. A Ragtime is a pianistic compositional form, like an Etude, a Fugue or a Prelude. It is rigidly structured, and gifted composers and players can find much variation in it. Jazz is a blues based improvisation over a given chord structure. Ragtime composition is, at best (as regards jazz) a bridge between European pianistic compositional style, and the more free ranging jazz playing. Rag perhaps evolved into jazz, much like the French impressionistic music of Debussey and Ravel later evolved under the pen of Duke Ellington into Indigos. Mr. Joplin, a GIANT among 20th century composers, as far as depth of extension and influence goes, himself regarded his compositions, correctly, as an extension, through the lived experience of African Americans, of the European tradition. The history of western music is a glorious back and forth dialogue. It's the very thing that makes us unique -- the cadences and tonalities of all different world cultures cooked together on these shores in a huge gumbo, the spices of which keep melding and changing into something inspired. We are losing sight of this rapidly in this country, and it saddens me. We have succumbed almost completely to the marketplace.

[@girlmusician24]

I’m in the process of becoming a classical pianist. So I listen to a lot Johanne Sebastian Bach and Ludwig Van Beethoven. I also like a lot of Claud Debussy’s works. I would really like to get into listening to more Schubert,Chopin and Liszt.

[@trimeldaconcepcionmcdaniel5902]

www.nashvillepublicradio.org/post/these-seven-black-composers-made-classical-music-history

[@West-Telecom]

@@trimeldaconcepcionmcdaniel5902 Their relatives are whites.They'd get that abilities from their white relatives.Don't forget.

[@trimeldaconcepcionmcdaniel5902]

@@West-Telecom Some thoughts: 1) Duke Ellington studied classical music and was a master at playing it too. 2) Also what about the Black men and women who conduct classical music and even compose it? www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/conductor/black-ethnically-diverse-inspiring/ 3) My Dad was about as street as you can get and he loved Beethoven as well as jazz. 4) And what about "Carmen "? They just did a remake of that all classical opera as "Carmen: A Hip Hopera" with Beyonce(!) Can't get more Black than that, lol www.imdb.com/title/tt0274415/ 5) The world's music is as diverse as the world's tribes and people. 6) I used to hate all country music, but now I am a fan of Trace Adkins. His songs are funny. I could see "I Got My Game On" being sung R and B style in a heart beat. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoG2ZGlnrtiVps0 Music is music. Beat is beat.

[@West-Telecom]

@@trimeldaconcepcionmcdaniel5902 Oh please don't change the opera.Especially Beonce...

[@silentxdeadly]

Was this suppose to be disproving the title lol

[@elijaguy]

The first episode Hilarious!!!

[@The_Ex_Boxing_Nerd]

Miles Davis exclusively listened to classical music in his home.

[@chaii_latte]

3:52 what aiming is that?

[@Tish256]

Ha this one!!! I use to listen to it a lot back in the day... #BANDNERD

[@cecegichau9785]

yes! yes! finally someone said it :)

[@kierrabrossette2117]

I like classical music I listen to it when I study.

[@mattiafioravanti8475]

This is pretty weird. Like saying that since I'm white I don't (or shouldn't) listen to blue, funk, rap, or r&b. Insane to even think about it!!!

[@ChipAltmanxD]

Would someone kindly point me toward a good black classical guitarist? Thanks!

[@ChipAltmanxD]

@i. rob Thanks rob! Here's another kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5m6oIatZ7WYeqs

[@Infidelio]

Those cops probably had never even seen a cello before.

[@thegoddessdiana9185]

I used to play cello in elementary thru high school. The cops probably said, "What kind of fiddle is that?".

[@zugootsprevasio6595]

This is sad so many of our people are limited

[@KMO325]

I make a playlist for the road and slip Claude Debussy in between a Kendrick and Jay Rock track and dare someone say something. Yes, I was in the school band. Also Duke Ellington is Classical/Art music, don't care what anybody says.

[@joebustos6413]

In essence classical is in its own. The build up and story that unfolds is what great score writers do. Other music not classical is instant in and out and on to the next. That's why some scores be could 10 minute long, because of the story.

[@veronicadabney1466]

I listen to classical music all the time. But I think the word "classical" refers to all kinds of music. Favorite European classical music--Mozart, Night Music, Beethoven, etc. Favorite American classical music--jazz, rock and roll/r&b (classically it's basically the same music, r&b is rock and roll and vice versa). We all know the roots of all classic American music.

[@kinoscene2319]

The word classical music is academic music. And this is a certain structure of work. Classical music cannot be tied to either the time or the country. It is written by geniuses, their works have no national framework.

[@tfh5575]

i frequently attend classical music concerts, and i like the good seats but since those cost a lot more than the regular tickets, i notice the ushers always look extra hard at my phone screen or even take my phone out of my hand to make sure my ticket is valid. i don't see them doing that to everyone else. like ma'am i promise i can afford to sit in the balcony. so tired of racists.

[@Isaakmedextraa]

Black people might not typically listen to classical music, but they might so why make a judgement when you don't know? If they do they do, if they don't they don't. This is what collectivism does. Lots of black people push it and it hurts them more than others.

[@winstonscott4195]

One could equally write that modern whites don’t listen to class music. In the states they like country and western or rock (which was appropriated from black music that blacks no longer listen to . But that would be a be-a generalisation. I certainly do love classical music , but then I have eclectic taste .Lizten to jazz, good Gospel and R&B.

[@geliasgelias6289]

rock had never been black music. Stop to lie

[@thesoulbrother8636]

@@geliasgelias6289 Yes it was black music, the original creators were black people. You need to do some research before you open your mouth. Cheers🍸

[@davidmurray4295]

There's nothing wrong with not liking classical music, and many people do not. But please don't try to explain it with a couple of big words (technicality, musicality) of which you obviously don't know the meaning. Being black myself, I can tell you that many many black children are told by their families and friends that they don't like classical music before they have heard a note of it. As a result, this richly rewarding form of music is denied to these children. Classical music is not just there. It is very involved and can leave you out of breath. (Try listening to a complete performance of Mahler's Sixth Symphony or Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto.) Many people are told basically to listen to music with their bodies instead of their heads. I am not trashing any form of music, nor am I putting down people who don't like classical music. I just don't like it when pseudo intellectuals say incredibly stupid things.

[@glennii9442]

I’m a black man and I listen to Classical Music.

[@mox9076]

I think people tend to diss modern music as not "technical" especially that idiot at 2:24. Has she ever looked at score of Duke Ellington. Or other genre. There is talent in the modern music. I grew up with Hip Hop, Classical, Jazz and R&B.

[@NATIVEKENT]

Oh weee this is...interesting

[@dfrancis9939]

Some black people just like to listen to what is considered 'black music', such as Hip Hop, Reggae, Soul, R&B and Jazz at the very least. There probably isn't enough known black classical musicians around for them to connect to it or relate. The style probably sounds more geared towards white people

[@clearlyc2438]

José Mauricio Nines Garcia (1767-1830) George Bridgetower (1780-1860) Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) Le Chevalier De Saint Georges (1745- 1799) I'm sure WAY more composers existed way before this time period.

[@alhfgsp]

If not liked, classical music (specifically western common practice) should be respected as an art form for the work it takes to achieve technically. I would consider classical to be closer to astrophysics than most music today. If I was in the car with a non-musician friend I wouldn't play audio from Carl Sagan nor would I play the Goldberg Variations from J.S. Bach.

[@kinoscene2319]

The desire to listen to and compose academic music directly depends on the level of intelligence, education, awareness. Until these concepts take root in the culture from a very young age, people will listen to modern nonsense, thinking that this is the best music in the world. In addition, the perception of music depends on the development of the structures of the temporal lobes of the brain. People with small temporal lobes simply cannot appreciate Gould's voice leadings, for example.

[@elias7748]

Classical music has the most soul of any other types of music.

[@alhfgsp]

@@kinoscene2319 I agree with those statements. I grew up in America with an inhospitable enviornment for classical music, a cultural wasteland. I didn't discover the beauty of it nor play an instrument until my late teens, and by that point it was too late to develope perfect pitch. I have decent relative pitch but there is a ceiling on my potential due to starting late. When education isn't respected in a culture then the civilization will decay with time.

[@brandonwoodson2861]

Adolphius Halstork is still alive

[@cjwright79]

lost the right audio channel about a minute in.

[@KellyAesop]

Based.

[@wynmcnamara9604]

Way fresher?..is that an aerosal?

[@toadynamite8141]

Bach

[@michaelconner1771]

That's the most humiliating story the cellist told I've ever heard. Reminds me of that scene in, "The Five Heartbeats" when the cops pulled over the group and asked them to prove they were singers and commanded them to, "sing something." I just finished listening to Brahms' Violin Concerto in D. The third movement "hits hard" as they in the hip hop generation would say. You can hear it in the movie, "There Will Be Blood" at the end. You may also listen to it on KZbin. By the way, I'M BLACK!

[@NotMozart1685]

3:05. The guy is even in the right key - c minor

[@leentune9798]

Please get together 🙂 classically trained black people & do a virtual Classical symphony ...my granddaughter wants to be the conductor. Let's us know SOOn it needs to be Done ASAP

[@freomoodfly]

what has melanin got to do with it?

[@controversialpsychologist3052]

2.20 she demonstrated her cognitive level

[@rickzepeda4403]

nas is classical music ???

[@playaplayastudios]

Nothing wrong with classical, I’d just rather show more love to the music my forefathers created and the ones before them. African music can be considered classical just like anything from Europe can be. Life started in Africa. Music started in Africa. They’re “classical” musicians are the likes of Chopin Bach etc, mines can stem from Jazz because those are MY ancestors.

[@trimeldaconcepcionmcdaniel5902]

But it is a misnomer to think that so called "Classical" music is only European. That's like saying all the European painters were men. Not so. These men are of our history too! www.nashvillepublicradio.org/post/these-seven-black-composers-made-classical-music-history

[@playaplayastudios]

@Bradman1000 , google the definition of Africa, followed by the name of the continent BEFORE it was named “Africa”

[@playaplayastudios]

@Bradman1000 , Exactly,in the area that is now called Africa. Thanks bud

[@kamilzabiegala1649]

That Cello Story is messed up, I'm sorry that happened to you Sir.

[@raddish4256]

Ray Charles was a big fan.

[@ensnubbe3581]

3:05 Beethoven's 5th, he got it right

[@elias7748]

Some of these people have only heard Canon in D. Kind of sad. Classical music has the most soul of any music. Especially music from the romantic peroid.

[@camillefedrick5973]

I like classical music BUT, I don't listen to it nor is it on my playlist.

[@mariettemayisa]

Do I personally like classical music: Yes, do I get why it's not a go to music genre for many people in the black community; yes... At the end of the day the people in the video spelt it out its White people's idea of classical music, other races, cultures, countries (whatever) have their own and thats ok. We have so many things that are influenced by western culture and its ok to leave some of them behind or not fully embrace them as a people. imo

[@sarahpena9501]

Do you know Chevalier de Saint George ? he actually had an influence on Mozart whom to me is overrated. I actually prefer Saint George over Mozart....the cello at the end what a sound! 😊

[@West-Telecom]

And his dad was white french musician and let his son to learn from Mozart.Stop to creat idiotic blm myths. Ok ???

[@jonathanblanchet1370]

July 2019 i will meet my cousin who is a good policeman but i will tell him your story. That's a promise. C'est une promesse.

[@4grammaton]

Mad respect to Black folk for immediately thinking of Bach when thinking about classical music, rather than Mozart or Beethoven which would be first choice for White folk. I wonder what the reason for Bach's higher recognition among Black people is.

[@West-Telecom]

Wrong.Because he’s father of music

[@Queen76543]

Joseph bologne