Welcome to The Listening Experience Database

This is an open and freely searchable database that brings together a mass of data about people’s experiences of listening to music of all kinds, in any historical period and any culture.

There are currently 11847 listening experiences in the database, with 178 more experiences awaiting approval.

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Charles Mingus in Los Angeles - 1939

"  Charles went to the record date and the minute he heard Red [Callender] play he wanted him to be his teacher.  He told Britt, ‘Man, in the break he was sitting alone playing “Body and Soul.” I was so surprised to hear anybody doing that [...]"
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Sergey Prokofiev in Chicago - 15 December, 1921, in the afternoon

"At one o'clock I had to leave the rehearsal and pass the baton to a delighted Smallens, in order to go to the general rehearsal of the Concerto. It gets better each time we rehearse it, but it is still not good enough. The Symphony is"
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