Something about winter time perks up my interest in classical music. Or at least in one of the tunes. Last year it was the Largo from the New World Symphony by Dvorak. This year it is the Presto from Vivaldi's Summer section of the Four Seasons. A traditional setting of the tune:
And the rock setting which I am most familiar with:
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
I feel kind of like a "Yuppie" for listening to traditional Chinese tea music as a thirty year old white guy but something about it is amazing as background music. Sometimes I focus in because some part of the music is rather interesting and other times it just sets a passive calm mood.