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03-27-2006, 04:18 AM | #1 |
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Classical Music II
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03-27-2006, 06:08 PM | #2 |
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I thank Earniel for doing this for me...if Troll's Bane or Mercutio had restarted this thread, I would've leapt at them with my Iron Jaws ...but since it was only innocent Earniel, I forgive her that she gets credit for opening this thread...
Anyways. I recently finished putting all of my non-opera music (including some opera) onto my ipod. Very, very, very hard to do. I had to manually enter all of the names for each track (can you imagine my chagrin> < when I realized that I'd started naming Chopin's Nocturnes from track 7 on?!!! ), which resulted in multiple headaches each night. This morning I woke up and had my hair not too dissimilar to Wolverine's. On a much worse note: some friends of mine from a Berlioz message board have informed me that the EU wants to get rid of Pipe Organs! I'm not talking about a pipe, stuck in one of your organs, I'm not talking about your vocal pipes; O those glorious "organs"...I speak of these: Westminster Abbey Organ Notre Dame , These, called the King of Instruments...the ones that have been played by Bach, Handel, Franck, Saint-saens, Bruckner, Widor, Schweitzer, Faure!! And why? Because lead figures into the making of the pipes, and lead is poisonous. Lead IS poisonous, but there is NO case where any organ manufacturers have had lead poisoning. What I really want to know is why they think it so important. It isnt as if organs exude leaden fumes, thus poisoning the congregants in the church (if there are any).
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Cool! Now I can be the third poster in this thread! Yay!
And to start out, I just want to complain about how kids these days (excluding me and a very very miniscule--probably "one part per million" to use scientific terms--number of others) don't know ANYTHING about classical. They think that Rhapsody in Blue was coined by an airline company, that Vivaldi's Spring (that is the most famous, right? I think one of my CDs mislabled it, so I'm confused) came from football. I don't particularly like Mozart, he is not my favorite at all, nor is Beethoven, but sure enough, the kids stereotype any classical music as "Beethoven" or "Mozart", and every now and then you run across a less ghetto one that will go so far as saying "Bach", and rarer still, they will remember one or two composers with what they think are funny names, such as Meyerbeer.
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03-27-2006, 11:07 PM | #4 |
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I love the Jupiter Symphony.
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i more of a Beatle fan but i love The Planets by Gustav Holst
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Imperial March anyone? John Philip Souza? Don't they qualify as classic?
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for me its always, "oh yeah, Beethoven" or "do you play an instrument?" Or what about those who insist that classical is merely background music? On one aleatory occasion (I'm not 100% sure what aleatory means, but it DOES fit here), I was at Hastings. This guy my age starts looking through, and he pulls out a cheapish disc of the 3 famous Beethoven sonatas...and he says to his dad "I'm trying to find the perfect recording of the first movement of the "Moonlight" sonata". Well, I thought I'd put his attention to Ashkenazy's recording, and I suggested it. He didn't look at me like he was weirded out, but he was kindof passive, as if trying to decide what the heck I was trying to do..."is this guy trying to tell ME what to buy?", I'm sure he thought: and his real reply showcased his thought clearly enough. "No thanks, I'm just looking". I had to roll my eyes...though I didnt go so far as to play marbles with them, but I felt like it!!! Quote:
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It does count. Added: Tchaikovsky: Syms 2 & 6/Romeo&Juliet Overture/ Francesca da Rimini Tchaikovsky: String Serenade/Suite No.4/Andante Cantabile Gounod: Faust - Ghiarouv - Sutherland - Boynyge Vaughn Williams: Syms 3 & 5 Bach: 6 Favorite Cantatas - Joshua Rufkin Bach: Mass in B minor/ Mass in F Ravel: Complete Piano Music Ravel/Debussy: Music for Piano 2Hand and 2 Pianos Yes, Fat Middle! I found the exact recording of the Bach Cantatas that you'd recommended. Wonderful stuff!!
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I may put on a classical CD every now and then, usually a collection with various composers, and have no clue what is what, I just listen to the stuff. Started putting it on my computer, but adding the correct info to the files (I'm kinda obsessive about that) took me forever, so I abandoned the project. |
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Here we go! Opera and science!
Nixon (?): Telecommunication, has broadcast your message... into spaaaaace!
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Not an Adams fan actually...I prefer Glass and Reich (so far), and there's a wonderful piece called The Frontier by (David?) Heath.
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Well, I'll look that up. Nixon got on my nerves. Perhaps the recording I first listened to was the better. After all, KUSC always plays the best, when I'm not available to write them down.
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Yeah, I haven't liked those minimalist operas.
I liked William Bolcom's "A View From the Bridge". And I have been enjoying Roger Waters' new work "Ca Ira". But mostly I don't seem to connect with any opera since Britten. |
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Have you Listened to Pfiztner's "Palestrina", Previn's "A Streetcar"? Neithe have I...but if you do, tell me about them .
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I never understood why people consider Frank Sinatra, et. al., as classical music... Oh well!
South of the border - down mexico way Thats where I fell in love, where the stars above - came out to play And now as I wander - my thoughts ever stray South of the border - down mexico way She was a picture - in old spanish lace Just for a tender while, I kissed a smile - upon her face cause it was fiesta - and we were so gay South of the border - mexico way Then she smiled as she whispered manjanna Never dreaming that we were parting Then I lied as a whispered manjanna cause our tomorrow never came South of the border - I jumped back one day There in a veil of white, by the candle light - she knelt to pray The mission bells told me (ding-dong) - that I musnt stay South of the border - mexico way
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When I'm really tired, when most classical music would annoy me, I just can't get enough of the Time Square dance thing.
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