How much of your music listening is classical?

[springrite]

Over the past year, 90%. The other 10% being children's songs that Kimi likes, such as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, etc.

[Mirror Image]

Gosh, MI, Tony wrote that three years ago ; )

Lol....

[MN Dave]

1/3 classical
1/3 hard rock/metal
1/3 other shtuff

Shake gently, serve in a highball glass on the rocks.

[AndyD.]

45% "Classical"
45% Metal, Hard Rock, Rock, whadevah-ya-wanna-call-it
10% Otha stuff

[Monty Cello]

I hit 95%, but only because I took "classical" to be in the broad sense, not just Haydn to Beethoven. How does one categorise AMM music, and the like? Not jazz, not classical, yet it involves performers from both traditions. Then there's Zappa, some is close to classical, some to jazz, some is clearly rock, and some is pretty difficult to categorise.

[Mirror Image]

These days it's more like this:

95% classical
5% everything else

[Brian]

Apparently when this poll was first posted, I voted "85%." In 2010, classical music was 96.2%!

[greg]

About 70%... not sure what I wrote before, but probably 90% before.

[madaboutmahler]

100%.
I have never actually sat down and seriously listened to anything other than classical. There is only a limited amount of other music I would enjoy, including a small variety of jazz, a bit of Abba maybe, not too heavy rock maybe. But I never spend any spare time actually sitting down to listen to this other stuff,  I only save that rather limited amount of time for classical!

Daniel

[DavidW]

These days it's more like this:

95% classical
5% everything else

Me too, though I mean to listen to other kinds of music, I just end up listening to classical more than anything else!

[Brahmsian]

99% classical
1% unavoidable noise that creeps in off cars on streets blasting music, flipping TV channels and coming upon MTV for a split second, or the Caribbean restaurant/bar next door that has the most horrible live music on Friday and Saturday evenings (plays mainly classic rock from the 70s and 80s, and the singer cannot hold a note).

[71 dB]

Varies a lot. There have been months almost without classical music and months dominated by classical music. I don't get as excited about classical music as I used to get back when I had just "found" it all (1996-2000). However, I still do get pretty excited.

Recently I got interested about Carly Simon. A year ago I "found" Rose Royce. In 2008 I "discovered" Tangerine Dream and King Crimson. All these artists are non-classical and different from each other.

I don't think it's healthy to limit yourself to classical or non-classical only. It seems almost any genre of music can offer something interesting if we keep an open mind.

[North Star]

During the last couple of years, intentional listening has been close to 100% classical. Before that I listened to a lot of Jazz and 70s Rock. I remember most of that stuff even though I haven't listened to it for some years, though.

[Lisztianwagner]

99% 

Apart from classical music, I sometimes listen to a bit of jazz (especially Oscar Peterson and Miles Davis), Georges Brassens and the Clash.

Ilaria

[thalbergmad]

I am slightly worried about those in the 100% bracket.

I am probably about 85%, but often listen to jazz and bluegrass as it makes me smile and there ain't much classical that does this.

Thal

[Daverz]

I am slightly worried about those in the 100% bracket.

I am probably about 85%, but often listen to jazz and bluegrass as it makes me smile and there ain't much classical that does this.

What classical music are you listening to that never makes you smile?

[DavidW]

What classical music are you listening to that never makes you smile?

He must be a big Pettersson fan.

[ibanezmonster]

It's dropped down to about 50% for me lately... the other 50% is pretty much mainly progressive metal.

[Bulldog]

I don't think it's healthy to limit yourself to classical or non-classical only.

Now I know why I'm screwed-up.

[Mirror Image]

I am slightly worried about those in the 100% bracket.

I am probably about 85%, but often listen to jazz and bluegrass as it makes me smile and there ain't much classical that does this.

Thal

I like so much other music besides classical that it would seriously be hard for me to listen to classical music 100%, but those that can my hats are off to them. I don't think there's anything wrong with somebody who does if that's what they wish to listen to. They could be listening to a lot worse!

I like a healthy balance of classical, jazz, and rock. There's a lot of classical that makes me grin from ear to ear. Like, for example, each time I listen to Chavez's Sinfonia India I just can't help but laugh and clap along. It just makes me feel good. Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks makes me smile. Bartok's Hungarian Sketches makes me happy. I mean there's a lot of really fun music out there. Not all classical music is supposed to be serious. I mean listen to Varese's Ameriques for example. It's so damn crazy and rhythmically exciting that I can't help not to feel good.