Benjamin Zander's The Transformative Power Of Classical Music

Classical music is one of the traditional pillars of culture in our modern world. In Benjamin Zander’s presentation titled The Transformative Power of Classical Music, discussed the importance of the classical genre and its ability allow people to empathize and connect to a common emotion. Benjamin wanted to show the audience that classical music is not boring but is usually presented in a way that does not allow the listener to appreciate and feel the emotion of the author of a piece. Benjamin explained that classical music is played with impulse rather than emotion, it doesn’t allow the musician to exude the emotion within the song, but rather focus on playing the correct notes. In order to get the audience to appreciate classical music, Zander insist that the musician must understand the nature of the song and allow the emotion of the song to be heard not the music. If the audience can feel the emotions and feel the happiness or sorrow a song can produce they can be able to relate to the music in a deeper level. This is the key to

The power of classical music is that it is the pure emotion. Emotion does not need lyrics or imagery to convey meaning. Zander just simply encourages this deep level of empathy by asking the audience to call forth a lost loved before his performance. Classical music plays of on the idea that human are emotional beings and every struggle faced is tied to an emotion. It attempt to conjure that emotion to unites everyone in the audience to the same feeling of loss. The fact that most of the audience became dewy-eyed was proof for Zander on how classical music is compatible for everyone. After his performance, he told us his experience with Irish kids and the fact that he could connect them with their emotions through his music, further cementing his claim that classical should be for