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Old 03-18-2011, 11:56 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by GreenLantern View Post
I have always wanted to get into classical music but wasn't sure where to start..

I really like Jazz, listen to quite a bit of it.. any suggestions that would be a sort of bridge?
A couple of years ago at the CPO, they had a Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky night.

Jazz Suite 1 and 2 by Shostakovich were performed. Now they are not in the jazz style of Gershwin, are just light dance suites played on the piano, so foxtrots, polkas, marches, waltzes of Shostakovich's time. I quite enjoyed them and ordered in this CD.

http://www.amazon.com/Shostakovich-J.../dp/B0000041ZT
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