In this episode we losten to classical music that helps us feel happy.

Classical music that makes you smarter

Happy New Year! Lets listen to music that gives us the feeling of a new start and new beginning, celebration and reflection.

In this episode we will highlight the upcoming concert of the Wellington City Orchestra who are performing Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto #1 and New Zealand composers Douglas Lilburn / Aoteoroa Overture and Anthony Ritchie / Symphony #1

Many listeners own a cat, like cats or just want to get into the current trend of being a cat lady. This episode is dedicated to USA  Republican Candidate for vice president  J.D. Vance and as well to Taylor Swift who endorsed Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris with a cat friendly special sign off. Lets listen to classical music that have cat themes, either in the title, theme, or through cat-like musical ideas or motifs

In previous "Listen to this!" episodes we highlighted the performance of the Nelson Symphony and their concert called "Travel Plans".  Even though its musical program is also about different places, the Christchurch Youth Orchestra’s concert is less about the cultural aspects of a different country and more about the visceral FEELING of the geography of a different land.

Ahhh love….We all want it… sometimes we find it sometimes we lose it. How does classical music bring us love and Romance through the story of the classic story of Romeo and Juliet.

Let’s groove with our modern moves to the old classical beats.

Let’s continue to open up our lives to new feelings, new ways of thinking, new sensations by exploring the world through classical music with the music of The Nelson Symphony Orchestra’s concert, Travel Plans.. Aaron Copland's visit the USA with Appalachian Spring, New Zealand with Natalie Hunt's Only to the Mountain Highest and Spain with Joachim Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez.

Travelling is so great. Going somewhere different, even if it’s only a short distance away can take you out of your own problems, change your way of thinking and your heart to more joyful possibilities in life.  For a brief moment when visiting somewhere different, you can feel something special.

In this episode of Listen to this! let’s let classical music take us to where we want to go. Highlighting music from the upcoming March 23rd Travel Plans concert of the Nelson Symphony Orchestra in New Zealand. Beethoven's Overture to Fidelio, Faure's Pelleas et Melisande Suite for Orchestra and Anthony Ritchie's Albatross in Flight.