Fetal Music
Thursday, February 4th, 2010For those of you interested, which should be all of you, in the outcome of the pick-a-CD-for-fetus task I was assigned by My Baby, I have the results.
I didn’t make it through the 80 CDs I had picked out. The deadline buzzer rang as I was about in the I’s. And even then I couldn’t settle on just one, giving My Baby no fewer than three: one jazz, one classical, and one pop/rock. The winners are…
Bach: Brandeburg Concertos 4, 5, & 6 (thanks uncle J-mez for Our Baby’s first gift!)
Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue
Beth Orton: Trailer Park, which got me through the last couple of days of thesis writing, so it was front of mind.
I’m a bit disappointed I didn’t end up with a male vocalist in there, but the kid’s got plenty of time for that, I suppose. Besides, if she’s anything like her dad (don’t read too much into that, I don’t know the sex and we’re pretending it’s a girl this month), she’ll take an instant liking to them anyway.
The kid’s a regular music critic, already strongly preferring Bach to Miles Davis, My Baby reports. I love that the kid’s right. I mean, Miles Davis is great, but I’m not sure I’d put any musician in front of Bach. Besides, the Davis and Orton CDs are definitely intended to be the sleepy-time CDs and, apparently, Bach will now be how she gets her exercise.