Classical Music

[Elfhelm]

1. In my lowly opinion, just about anything is better than Tchaikovsky.

2. I have the entire Ring Cycle (Solti's) on my iPod so I can hear it whenever I want. Sometimes I listen to all 15 hours at a sitting. I don't have any attention span issues with Wagner.

3. Since Stravinsky had basically 4 periods, and only one of them was predominantly rythmic, it can't possibly be true that he has no melody.

4. Opera, which I love, is one part of classical (not the time period) music, but so are Strauss waltzes which I abhor. Mozart wrote operas, Beethoven wrote one, too. Any other questions? Are composers who only write operas real classical composers? Are tennie runners shoes?

5. People who think good music stopped with the death of Mozart are usually equally lazy in their assessment of when it started.

6. Stravinsky wasn't a postmodernist, technically. Postmodernism, as the name suggests, is a reaction to modernism. Modernism pretty much covers the period from the discovery of Troy to the rise of the Nazis. Postmodernism is the period from World War II to present. Modernists consider themselves older than their predecessors. Postmodernists like to transcend time and consider themselves contemporary with their predecessors. It's a lot more complicated than that, but I am a postmodernist so that's my personal definition.

p.s. I'm just dropping by to say hi. My email address is on my profile if anyone feels like writing.