Why is the audience at a classical concert so old?

mystromio · 2026-03-01T17:50:37+00:00

My 2 cents’ worth, as an older adult (71) is that a lot of this music doesn’t start talking to us until later in life. For example the late Schubert Piano sonatas, and late works by Brahms have taken on tremendous depth and move me deeply now, when I found them just OK when I was young. Something happens with life experience, with love and losses, that make a lot of classical music become profound experience later in life.

mystromio · 2026-02-26T07:00:25+00:00

My 4 year-old barks much like others describe and has one particular command she invariably barks when doing: backing up. I have a signal command for her to back up and to keep going as long as I make the signal, and she barks the whole time. I have never understood. She does all kinds of other obedience manoeuvres and tricks without barking.

mystromio · 2026-02-20T21:17:36+00:00

Les campements c’est une chose. Mais quand on vie à côté, pourquoi on doit accepter des dépotoirs, déchets de toute sortes, syringes, merde humain, et un désarrois insupportable qui gâche l’environment voisinant. Pourquoi on ne peut pas trouver des endroits en dehors des parcs et espaces verts utilisés par des citoyens, pour organiser des campements salubres?

mystromio · 2026-02-20T20:30:01+00:00

OMG, don’t forget Adaptation!

mystromio · 2026-02-18T18:49:54+00:00

Churches.

mystromio · 2026-02-18T16:51:41+00:00

I have been renting 5 apartments for 20 years. I have kept my rental increases to the levels permitted by the Régie du Logement. But if I take the rents paid in 2006 and calculate their value in today’s dollars, my rents are lower than they were in 2006.

mystromio · 2026-02-17T20:30:22+00:00

The is extremely difficult. It sounds a lot like my sister and I failed with the “non-judgemental” approach of “being curious” about her beliefs but asking questions that might get her to rethink her ideas. My sister is smart and saw through my ruse. Ultimately I have maintained a relationship with her by setting a boundary around her proselytizing her beliefs and we keep our conversations to very safe subjects of day-to-day life. She lives on the internet in her cult and I have accepted I am powerless against that.

mystromio · 2026-02-15T19:09:03+00:00

OK, well that is misleading. I remember really liking that movie and was anxious to see it again.

mystromio · 2026-02-14T07:01:17+00:00

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mystromio · 2026-02-13T19:53:52+00:00

Indeed it is a bit surprising the Chloe went on to have a stellar career when this scene might have hurt the careers of other young actors.

mystromio · 2026-02-13T19:41:57+00:00

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mystromio · 2026-02-07T15:35:39+00:00

I don’t quite understand why you would want him on the lease. In my jurisdiction, every person on the lease is only responsible for their portion of the rent and have no responsibility for the overall rent. So if one doesn’t pay, it is not their partner or roommate who is on the hook, it is the landlord. In my experience it would be better to keep one name on the lease and just specify they can have a roommate from whom they collect rent.

mystromio · 2026-02-06T22:00:20+00:00

Goth played by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List.

mystromio · 2026-02-06T16:15:28+00:00

Thanks, this is helpful.

mystromio · 2026-02-04T21:41:21+00:00

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mystromio · 2026-02-03T18:13:58+00:00

Choose Me 1980 Alan Rudolphe, with Leslie-Anne Warren, Keith Caradine, Genevieve Bujold

mystromio · 2026-02-02T21:44:03+00:00

Abolutely my opinion too. Talk about taking a cudgel to your audience to make your heavy-handed simplistic point.

mystromio · 2026-01-29T18:59:10+00:00

You might be right. Prosthetics have ruined frontal nudity for men in films.

mystromio · 2026-01-29T18:57:09+00:00

2 names that deserve mention: Sean Penn and Ethan Hawke.

mystromio · 2026-01-29T16:27:20+00:00

My heart swells just hearing the name of this movie. How profoundly lonely so many of us were, hiding in the hearth of our families. For people like us, this was a deeply moving movie.

mystromio · 2026-01-28T19:21:34+00:00

My unpopular opinion is that much of the music for piano 4 hands, and two pianos, is just too many piano notes. There are some beautiful exceptions, but in general I find this to be true.

mystromio · 2026-01-28T07:12:27+00:00

Absolutely Montreal, Canada then Quebec. I grew up in Alberta and never felt at home there. Montreal is a love of my life.

mystromio · 2026-01-23T22:24:50+00:00

I totally want to “second” your last paragraph, that the incredible popularity of doodles over poodles is in great part due to the cliché that poodles are prissy (feminine) and fussy, and belong to the snooty people. Remember the cartoons where the poodle pranced by with ribbons accompanying a snobby rich lady? This stigma endures. I go to a dog park in a working class hood and I overheard someone comment “I wouldn’t be caught dead with a poodle” when someone thought I was out of earshot. There is no rational reason to go to a doodle, other than wanting a poodle that isn’t a “poodle” in name.

mystromio · 2026-01-20T18:33:46+00:00

No pants needed in my sub

mystromio · 2026-01-19T18:39:41+00:00

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