Antisocial kids become converted to classical music :D

[Aeolian harp]

You know how classical music has been used to prevent loitering & antisocial behaviour by groups of teenage delinquents? The idea being they are repelled & disperse rather than hang around listening to such *uncool* music.

Well, it has had the opposite effect in a Scottish town...

Co-op's attempts to drive Cove teens away with classical music backfires

"Gie's some more Liszt!" "Hey mister, gonnae play us a bit of Bach?" Unlikely as it may seem, managers of a food store in Aberdeen have seen their plan to drive away groups of young people with soothing classical music backfire on them.

Usually, the Co-op's proven method of dispersing unruly teenagers from the front door of their stores is foolproof. Play a few hours of Swan Lake or Sleeping Beauty and they run screaming for the hills.

Teenagers in Cove, a quiet suburb of Aberdeen, have enjoyed the music so much that when the managers of the local Co-op store switched it off they came into the store and asked for it to be turned on again.

The good news is that "Happily, Cove's teenagers are now causing fewer problems, their spirits apparently soothed by the music." 

[Sorin Eushayson]

At least more kids are coming to recognize the excellence of this music, though I think the sound of Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty would drive me, too, away from the premises!!! 

[Daverz]

Now they can become antisocial GMG members. 

[Gurn Blanston]

Now they can become antisocial GMG members. 

Sorry, we're full up. 



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Listening to:
Jakob Lindberg / Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble - G 447 Quintet #3 in Bb for Guitar & Strings 4th mvmt - Allegro

[greg]

Now they can become antisocial GMG members. 

ha, doesn't matter. You can't take the antisocial out of someone, but you can get them to enjoy great art!

[Wanderer]

Now they can become antisocial GMG members. 

Sorry, we're full up. 

Ha! 

[The new erato]

Yep - we see it all the time here - my first thought when I saw the thread title, notwithstanding the other comments here.

[Brian]

Has anyone considered the possibility that the kids are joking?

[Josquin des Prez]

Has anyone considered the possibility that the kids are joking?

Either way, those kids appear to be a lot smarter then the patronizing bureaucrats who came up with this idiotic idea thought they were.

[mikkeljs]

In a way, it is quite logic, that classical music evoke so much fascination. The main problem is that most people out there have no clue about classical music, since the few things they might have experienced was Eine kleine Nachtmusik and other uncool ringtones. Even if they listen to a whole piece by Mozart, they probably only get the sound of their expected clichee about Hofmeister Mozarts Wiener BonBons.

It is my theory that anyone with enought intelligence to crack a nut, who are able to give 30 minuttes of serious concentration for any modern piece of music, will immediately fall in love with it and want more! Just by surfing on yourtube on Messiaen, Stockhausen or John Cage. They would not particularly love it, but I´m sure it would catch their interrest like any other mystirous clips, and most of them would turn back to see what this is all about.

[eyeresist]

Either way, those kids appear to be a lot smarter then the patronizing bureaucrats who came up with this idiotic idea thought they were.

Just shopkeepers trying to defend their business, in this case. That said, I think we'd all find this story more cheering if the music was something other than lollipops by Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi (presumably not in HIP).

[Lethevich]

Now they've failed with Vivaldi, perhaps it's time to bring Wagner and Pettersson into play...

[not edward]

Now they've failed with Vivaldi, perhaps it's time to bring Wagner and Pettersson into play...

Let's go a bit further:

Shoplifting with Schnittke
Rihm for Ramraiders
Window-smashing with Webern
Tippett for Troublemakers

[greg]

Let's go a bit further:

Shoplifting with Schnittke
Rihm for Ramraiders
Window-smashing with Webern
Tippett for Troublemakers

Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!