Listen to this!

Listen to this!

By Beth Cohen and Plains FM 96.9 Christchurch New ZealandMusicMusic Commentary
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  • Travel Plans Part 2

    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.

    30 min
  • Travel Plans Part 1

    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.

    28 min
  • Acceptance

    Listen To This! - Episode 11 - Acceptance

    ( 0:28:23)        Episode Information 
    Published: 3/09/2023 6:00:00 p.m.

    29 min
  • The Five Stages of Grief / Bargaining

    Listen To This! - Episode 9 - The Five Stages of Grief/Bargaining

    ( 0:26:40)        Episode Information 
    Our last two episodes of Listen to this! were about death and more specifically about denial and then anger two of the five stages of grief that we go through when we are mourning a great loss in life, whether it be actual death or the loss of a job, marriage or anything in between. Let’s listen now to classical music that helps us through another of the five stages of grief. Bargaining.
    Published: 23/07/2023 6:00:00 p.m.

    27 min
  • Grief / Anger

    Listen To This! - Episode 8 - Grief / Anger

    ( 0:27:38)        Episode Information 
    There are five stages of grief that we go through when we are mourning a great loss in life, whether it be actual death or the loss of a job, marriage or anything in between. In this episode we listen to classical music that helps us through a particularly difficult stage of grief, Anger.
    Published: 9/07/2023 6:00:00 p.m.

    28 min
  • Death and Denial

     Listen To This! - Episode 7 - Death and Denial

    ( 0:26:43)         Episode Information
    Today's episode is about Death. Arggghhh. Not the most positive thing in the world but, along with taxes, an inevitable fact of life. We will try and break down death or ending and the difficult emotions we go through when we are confronted with…. the end and find classical music
    Published: 11/06/2023 3:16:00 p.m.

    27 min
  • Classical Music and Power

    Listen To This! - Episode 6 - Classical Music and Power ( 0:26:24)        Episode Information 
    In this episode of Listen to this! we will be listening to classical music that has power, that helps us feel strong and mighty. Because our emotions can be subtly different and complex and because we need subtly different support and inspiration from our classical music this, episode will show us classical music that has the kind of power we need to win, a power we need so that we can overcome any obstacle internal or external.
    Published: 28/05/2023 6:00:00 p.m.

    27 min
  • Classical music that heals

    Listen To This! - Episode 5 - Classical music that heals (0:28:4)   Episode Information 
    Whether we need it emotionally, spiritually or physically., there is classical music that helps us feel better and heal. Classical music can help us feel better and stay healthier.
    Published: 14/05/2023 4:43:00 p.m.

    28 min

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