Classical Essentials

Classical Essentials…

What am I referring to?

Water, food, shelter?

Wind, earth, fire, water?

Nope.

It's a playlist that I have been obsessed with on Spotify since I downloaded the Spotify app back in 2016.

It became one of Lily's favorite playlists.

Although she definitely preferred coffee house jazz.

It was/is the playlist I listen to while working.

While writing.

While reading.

What's WILD is…. It NEVER makes it into my wrapped every year.

So I have no idea how many hours or whatevs I've listened to it.

Spotify has no idea how impactful this randomly generated playlist is.

ESPECIALLY because I learned that the ups and downs of classical music are like a balm to my currently overactive nervous system.

In the 6 days, I have not smoked weed… I've played this playlist probably 30 times.

In my headphones. Ob my robots in my house. On the computer at work.

I've been a musician almost my whole life.

I was/am a classically trained bassoonist. I lived and breathed classical music for 8 years that I played.

I didn't touch classical music for a YEAR after I quit playing. I only listened to the 2 cellos radios on Pandora.

I couldn't handle how much I still loved it.

How much I still longed to feel my lungs burn for air as I held onto a particularly deep note for 5 bars.

How much it makes me move. It's almost impossible for me to sit still with any music, but classical tones and beats hit me in my soul and penetrate beautiful liquid light into my Chakras, which then give me so much more life.

I don't just ever hear music. I feel it in my bones. I see it playing in my mind’s eye.

Was it from all the time I spent with my grandpa? Listening to ALL the greats from all the genres from the 40s and beyond?

Has my soul lived in a different world where they only communicate through sound and music?

Tones are crucial to my brain. It needs tones to understand the world around it.

Maybe I'll never know where the deep, passionate obsession with music came from, but for now, I will basque in the sound as it soothes my weed-fried nerves and ask it to heal me one dendrite at a time.

Ta Ta for now!!

Taylor Cecelia Brook