classical music
Noun
Meaning
traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
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A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.
Classical music is the kind we keep hoping will turn into a tune.
The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.