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No. 687
When I first heard Christmas Canon around the age of five, I was awestruck by how simple the opening was, and yet how beautiful it sounded. Then the singing started and just shit all over the good mood the instrumental opening gave me.
So imagine my fucking surprise when three years later I learn that it's based on Pachelbel's Canon.
Our music teacher that year usually had some classical music playing while she taught class, and during one session this song came up. I was enjoying the instruments, getting ready for the shitty vocals to chime in (nevermind not finding it odd that a she was playing a Christmas song in the middle of April). When the song reached its end without a word spoken or sung, I immediately interrupted whatever she was talking about to ask what the song was. Some nigger in the classroom chimed in "it's that Christmas song, right?". She corrected him, and after class lent me the tape she had played that day to listen to at home.
This can definitely be pinpointed as the start of my love of classical music.
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