twovictorianladies

My husband and I have very different tastes in music, but we have enough areas of common ground so that we can usually find enough CD’s we can both listen to if we’re going to be in the car together for an extended period of time.  When I was in the library yesterday looking for a few CD’s in these categories that we can both tolerate and haven’t heard forty dozen times, I started thinking how much easier it must have been when there was only classical music to worry about. (And yes, for the purists, I am aware that technically, “classical” music means only that which was produced over about 75 years or so in the late 18th and very early 19th century – I’m using the generic rather than the specific sense here.) But then it occurred to me that musical tastes will always differ no matter what the era, and I could just hear someone complaining, “You don’t want to listen to that awful Tchaikowski fellow, do you? He’s so MODERN! What about some nice Mozart?”