Life in Brisbane

As I returned to life in Brisbane, thoughts concerning Mozart came back to me and I found myself buying his music again. The music settled me down a lot and I suppose by this time I was listening to all of those piano sonatas and quite a few of the piano concertos. I still tuned in to rock and roll radio and even bought records of Johnny Mathis and Wayne Newton, American rock and roll giants whom I thought had interesting and exciting voices. But I was still playing a lot of classical music at the boarding houses I lived in at that time and the new Brisbane classical and Jazz F.M. radio station 4MBS had me as a steady listener. Over the years I have virtually ceased listening to rock and roll music, or even Jazz and now concentrate entirely on classical. My music library now mainly consists of Mozart's music plus some Tchaikovsky, Liszt and Prokofiev. I find that ABC-FM plays some interesting classical music, though I tend to enjoy the afternoon Programs where you can listen to long pieces more easily. Say, a complete symphony or piano concerto or chamber music work playing on the air for an hour or so.
The political climate in Queensland had now changed, but there were no restrictions on any of the classical music one could buy. In fact, at one time I had the opportunity to purchase the complete works of Mozart on CD for about $1000 or so I think, but I turned that down. One thing that depressed me a little was that in recent months at least there have been no specialist classical music stores selling a large variety of classical music CD's. Only small ranges of this type of music can now be found at different stores in Brisbane. I find that the classical music I play is at once dramatic, exciting, and comforting to me. I can easily spend an afternoon listening to it.
It is a haven from the clamour of big city life. I need to see people every day but yearn for the privacy of my room where I can listen to piano music uninterrupted for one or two hours at a time.