| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music
Posted: 11/18/2005 10:27:32 PM | brahms sym 1-4,
beethoven, all the odd numbers, especially no. 9
dvorak 8
bruch
rachmaninoff piano concerto 2, sym 2
mozart
mendelssohn sym 3, 4 (absolutely great)
schubert no. 9
elgar
tooooo many, what would u like to know?? if u r more specific, i can share a lot with you | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music
Posted: 11/19/2005 1:12:22 PM | wow! How did I miss this thread for so long??? Well, I was a French Horn major in college a hundred or so years ago - so that should give you an idea (although I dropped out to play sax and electric bass in a funk band - so that may give you another idea  )
Anyway - yeah I love 'classical' - although being a horn player, my preferences lean toward the late romantic period - especially Brahms, Bruckner, R. Strauss and especially Mahler. Too many others to mention as well - everything from Debussy to Stravinsky.
I was very fortunate growing up - in high school, our music dept got tickets to the San Francisco Symphony thursday matinee concerts - I went to hear the SFS under Ozawa a couple of times a month for free the whole time I was in high school. Heard music I might never have heard otherwise.
I remember vivdly the first concert I ever went to - Haydn Sym. #1 - Prokofiev Piano Cto #1 - Brahms Sym #1. In the Brahms I had chills going up and down my spine the whole time!! I can remember the feeling like it was yesterday.
I'll never forget the first time I heard live performances of The Rite of Spring, or Ravel's complete Daphnis & Chloe - or Scriabin's Poem of Exctasy (those pieces all belong in the Sex and Dating forum!!!).
Here is what I love about classical music. For some reason, it stirs in me a completely unexplainable emotional response - despite having no words, I can feel an incredible depth of joy, or can even be brought to tears, just through listening to the music.
You can't explain it to someone who doesn't feel it - only someone who has experienced it can understand it.
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Posted: 11/19/2005 3:18:08 PM | ^^I know exactly what youre saying.I feel the music as well.Classical music (not all but the really good stuff)moves me in a way that nothing else can.(espescially Mozart)It isnt just about the technical perfection for me.Its about the emotions some composers conveyed so exquisitely without a single word and what their music awakens and stirs in my soul. I not only love classical music...I have a burning passion for it.  | |
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Posted: 11/19/2005 3:19:30 PM | | Since I accidentally double posted ..I might as well edit and say this.I absolutely adore the Baroque period of classical music in part because I think the harpsichord has such an amazingly unique sound,and also because so many fantastic composers were a part of that era. The barouque and classical periods were my favorite.Im not a huge fan of the Romantic era although as I said earlier I think Brahms was amazing as were a few other groovy composers from that time period in classical music:) :) :). | |
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Posted: 11/19/2005 5:07:20 PM | Yes, yes, absolutely a burning passion for 'classical' music - in all of it's forms!
Well - that's part of the allure of 'classical' music - something for everyone!! I like Baroque - but it's not my favorite thing. Harpsichord I can appreciate in small doses - at times, though I am reminded of Thomas Beecham's quote "It sounds like a skeleton dancing on a corrugated tin roof"...
I LOVE Mozart!! Funny thing about Mozart though - and it seems to be quite consistent among the other musicians I have known: When you are young, you think Mozart is 'easy' to play - it's as you grow and mature that you realize how incredibly difficult his stuff is.
But there are SO many wonderful pieces of music out there. If you are the type that is 'moved' by music - I highly recommend you try to dip your toes more into the Romantic era composers. Those were the real characters, and their music can be overwhelming. Mahler was not widely played until some 50 years after his death. Since the 60's his symphonies have become the real warhorses of the orchestral repetoire - specifically because of the passion that his music evokes. He led an incredible life as well - triumphant and yet terribly tragic as well, and it is reflected in his music.
Brahms was an interesting character as well - often regarded as the last of the 'old guard' of Romantic composers in the vein of Beethoven - yet I have read some biographies of musicians of his era, whom upon hearing his 3rd and 4th symphonies for the first time - thought he had gone mad because the music sounded so 'modern' to their ears!!
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Posted: 11/20/2005 8:39:23 AM | ^^I love the way Mozart played around with all sorts of different combinations..He was brilliant!His music was groundbreaking and in my opinion was divinely inspired in some way.I like both Brahms and Beethoven.I read a really interesting book last year called "Beethovens hair."I dont actively attend live performances,(I would love to though)but I have been to a few.  | |
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Posted: 11/20/2005 1:38:49 PM | I've heard of the Beethoven book, but I have not read it - I'll see if I can find it and give it a read. Mozart - divinely inspired - absolutely. Many of his original manuscripts survive - and it is just as the movie glamorized - no changes or errors in many of them... He wrote down what he heard.
I have not regularly attended live performances since I've moved down here to Jacksonville - but then the arts scene is really just starting to grow - hopefully it will improve.
When I lived in San Francisco, besides having a fabulous orchestra and music scene - we always had the big orchestras passing through on tours. I would never miss those concerts. New York Phil, Philadelphia, Concertgebouw, Chicago etc. just fabulous stuff.
Even heard the Vienna Phil conducted by Bernstein - just incredible.
I don't know what the music scene is like where you live - but by all means get your guy to take you out to a symphony concert if you can. Nothing beats a live performance - no matter what genre of music you are talking about!!
Rock/Soul whatever - those shows are all cool for the party atmosphere.
But there is something about a 'classical' concert that touches ALL of the emotions. The complete silence just before the downbeat, when even the audience is holding their breath waiting for the first notes to float through the air from the orchestra to engulf the audience... ahhhh perfect!!
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Posted: 11/21/2005 9:41:20 PM | ^^^I love anything and everything Beethoven ever did:)Im currently really enjoying Mozarts k467 aka piano concerto#20 ...Its played on period instruments which I personally cant get enough of..Did I happen to mention how much I love Mozart?  | |
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Posted: 11/22/2005 12:49:25 AM | DO YOU KNOW THE ONE THAT GOES
HAP-PY BITHDAY
******HAPPY BIRTHDAY
*************HAPPY BIRTHDAY
HAP
***PE-EE
*******BIRTH
************DAY!
I CAN'T REMEMBER THE COMPOSER
BUT
I ALWAYS LIKED THAT ONE
SO MUCH BETTER THAN
PLAIN OL'
'HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU....ETC'
DON'T YOU THINK FOLKS?
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music
Posted: 11/25/2005 1:20:46 AM | | Love it. Fave's include; Motzart, Debussy, Vivaldi (four seasons), Tchaikovsky, Mahler, some Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov, some Chopin, & Elgar amongst others. I've thought for a while now that Motzart is music's only true genius, just so good & such a funny little chap! It sounds to me that you'd really enjoy Debussy. Give it a go. Px | |
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Posted: 11/25/2005 3:01:42 AM | well wonka...I suppose I could produce an essay comparing western music over history, but careful thought and articulation (pun anyone?) would have to go into such an emmense topic....so I'll just give a diminished thesis......ROMANTIC RUSSIA BABY OH YEAH! ....lol
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Posted: 11/25/2005 3:17:04 AM |
"Sonicus....you brought up schoenberg....does anyone really enjoy listening to his music? I appreciate the architecture and the forms but to just listen...YIKES..."
I've got to agree. I find it interesting from an academic perspective, but I hardly ever think, wow I'm really in the mood to groove to some Schoenberg.
I actually enjoy listening to Pierrot Lunaire Op. 21 while I am doing things around the house...lol I love the sprecksteme (sp?), and it reminds me of when I was a child and my mother used to wind all the music boxes in my room at once to wake me up.....very creepy try it sometime ;)
I find it to be eerie and strange yes....but still very enjoyable. I find I listen to 20th century music with a different ear....I am looking for colour above all.
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Posted: 11/26/2005 5:39:54 AM | | ^^ Now THAT is some obscure stuff ^^ just have never been able to get into Schoenberg's 12 tone row mothod of composing... but - different strokes!! Thanks for sharing! | |
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Posted: 11/26/2005 6:33:27 AM | I love listening to Classical music !!!! Leave it to AlisKat to start this thread (wink)
I tend to listen to it at it seems appropriate times when I need a certain frame of mind to be it. I first noticed this effect on me with it when I was in college... in deep concentration either I would begin to whistle a classical tune while drafting away, or listen to it while doing hours of homework.
One of my professors would tell me which piece I was whistling after only a few bars. At the end of my course to my surprise he had given me a mixed tape he recorded for me of all fantastic pieces (don't ask me to recall what was on it... I am not as knowledge as AlisKat at remembering who composed what).
I've also often switched the radio channel to a classical one while traffic moved at a snail's pace bumper to bumper on the freeway.... just a nice way to calm down and relax. | |
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Posted: 11/26/2005 12:20:45 PM | Hi guys..Chopin is very cool too...I also like the "Bachs"..Noone has mentioned his sons being pretty darn talented too..but they were I will check out Debussy...and a few of the other composers mentioned in this thread .Its amazing to me the myriad of meanings classical music can have in peoples lives..For some its unappreciated and only heard in elevators,for others its relaxation and enjoyment,for some its their life and they dedicate themselves heart mind and soul to their craft....and others still its an integral part of who they are.Im so thrilled youve all dropped by Thanks ,Kat...oh and hiya Pablo | |
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Posted: 11/26/2005 9:58:39 PM | | I have to be in the mood for it but when I am I'll listen to Beethoven, Stravinsky, Mussorgsky and I have some Yo-Yo Ma too that someone gave me I really like. | |
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Posted: 11/28/2005 1:33:52 AM | ^^I agree...As someone who writes im espescially intruiged at the ablity of composers to evoke such strong emotions without using a single word...well unless its opera :D Gotta love classical | |
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Posted: 11/28/2005 3:44:37 AM | I love just about any form of music.
How can you not like classical after sitting though so much Buggs Bunny as a kid? :)
I had a friend over my place once and wanted to use the bathroom so to give her privacy in my little place I put on classical music. Her comment was that she had never taken a dump to classical music before. OMG she cracked me me up to no end...and it still makes me smile to think about our times together. | |
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Posted: 11/28/2005 5:47:04 AM | Depends how you define classical. Some say it's always "western" but it could depend as much on when it was composed or how it's structured.
What I like to listen to at any time depends how I feel. I enjoy listening to most kinds of music but usually can't tolerate doing anything else when it's playing.
When I think hard about which composers I enjoy, there are too many to list, and some performers do a better job than others.
Dmitri Shostakovitch is one of my favorite composers, and especially the recordings of his symphonies by Haitink and Concertgebouw - #15 is always very enjoyable to listen to.
For me, Shostakovitch and Beethoven the only two composers who reached perfection with symphonic music, and listening to most of theirs is almost always a highly emotional experience for me. Beethoven was a master, continued composing even when he was deaf, and Shostakovitch often worked in a room full of people talking, kids, etc.
Sometimes only Bach or Scarlatti can do the job, but I also like Debussy, Satie, Berlioz, Charles Ives, and being at a Prom concert there can only be Elgar. I believe that Philip Glass could be called classical, so he would be on my list. | |
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