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In “Rebel Music”, Daniel Felsendfeld argues that anyone can find passion and self-expression through classical music, because classical music is the foundation of culture. The key is to come to the music (and everything we attempt) with an open mind. Open mindedness is a kind of rebellion according to Felsendfeld. For example, he defines Rebel this way: “Rebel sought to break the mold, to do something that was exclusively “theirs”, to be weird by way of self-expression. In the beginning of his narrative, Felsendfeld feels he is missing out on different aspects of culture, especially in music. At he’s 17 years old he was working in piano bars and community theater orchestra, but he said that the music “had a dulling effect on me “ and that he was attracted to music for some reason. Everything change for him when he listened the Beethoven Ninth Symphony, he described as “this big, gorgeous, unruly beast of a thing, contemporary, horrifying, a juggernaut, that moved from the dark to unbearable brightness, soaring and spitting, malingering and dancing wildly, the Most Beautiful Thing I Ever Heard”, That symphony was the start of his passion on classical music. And he said that his passion for this “other” kind of music makes him feel weird and have an adolescence being misunderstood. He starts to work hard , studying everything that he was able to learn more about classical music and be a composer. In the las paragraph, Felsendfeld is remembering his beginnings and using his “less-than- ideal origins as an asset”....