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I grew up listening to classical music and still love it. I'm mostly fond of full orchestral works, primarily by Russian composers (Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky et al). When I was young, my father ran an extension speaker from his stereo to my bedroom and I fell asleep many nights to Copland's "Rodeo", Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite" and Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra".
On a side note, when I was about 19, I went to a music store and bought an 8 track (yeah, I'm old!) of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons". While I was checking out, the very highbrow clerk said, "You know, this isn't the rock group the Four Seasons". Umm, yeah, I know. It was tough being a teenager in the '60's!
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