| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 11/28/2005 5:49:43 AM |
Her comment was that she had never taken a dump to classical music before.
Interesting thought. Ravel's Bolero for the constipated? What a build up, but what a finale! | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 11/28/2005 10:30:20 PM | I agree with you Beethoven and Bach were incredible...but Mozart is forever going to be my favourite composer of all time:)..I come in here and say that every time someone raves about another composer so he doesnt get left out..LOL   ^^Oh and as for dumping to classical music?I need to go poke my minds eye out now...lol ..thanks for the visual :p | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 11/29/2005 1:53:53 AM | Sorry Alis kat,
It's a guy thing to find so much humor in bodily functions made fun of that girls seem to get beyond at maturity.
I did like the "poking out your minds eye" comment. Cracked me up. | |
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Posted: 11/29/2005 9:01:17 AM | i too love all types of music and classical is definitely included. I also like Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi, and many others, too! I enjoy going to see the Cleveland Orchestra. I've seen them a few times when they have put on free shows and they are amazing. I wish I could go to see them more. | |
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Posted: 11/29/2005 7:21:42 PM | Im not offended by guys making jokes...lol..I just didnt expect there to be a correllation made between classical music and dumping  ..The NutcrackerSuite has been a favourite of mine since I was 3 yrs old..I agree Thanks for dropping by everyone:) | |
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Posted: 11/29/2005 7:41:29 PM | | Another classical fan here. While I'm always open for common favorites by Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart.. I love dramatic works such as "The Rite of Spring" by Stravinsky and anything by Rossini. | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music
Posted: 11/30/2005 1:14:08 PM | | Im curious if you guys appreciate a composers works more for the technical brilliance or is it more for the emotional content in a composition that catches your attention? | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music
Posted: 11/30/2005 2:50:45 PM | Personally, technical brilliance is only work a pitcher of warm spit. Much of todays composers are writing "intellectual" music that has the soul of dry white toast. Sometimes the simplest things brings the most amazing results. That said, I love just about everything. I appreciate the starkness of Hovanhess and as well find Richard Strauss to be both technically and emotionally amazing. The tone poems are some of my favorites. For me, the disussion of "favorites"...depends on my mood, time of day, year etc. To quote the Duke..."If it sounds good....it is good!"
btw...Schoenberg sounds like a can of warm asss gravy... LOL | |
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Posted: 11/30/2005 11:29:21 PM | Im with you that being emotionally amazing and moving is an integral part of music for me as well.I used to not have much of an appreciation for the technical aspects of music,until I started paying attention to the genius of composers like Mozart.Not only was he emotionally amazing and as I said before divinely inspired in some sense to compose the way he did....but the combinations were so unlikely and amusing in his works..He actually got slapped in the face once for bucking the system when it came to music.Mozart was one of the first actual rebels when it came to doing his own thing.....Very few people know that.Amadeus was an ok movie although very loosely based on who he actually was.He rocks my world in every way.   | |
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Posted: 12/1/2005 5:02:16 PM | | Well where are the rebels today? All the crap they play on the radio and in clubs. Why is no one pushing back the boundaries of music? Why don't people apply the same skill and intricate detail to popular music, as was once applied to classical music? Why should there even be a difference? Especially with the technology we have today! If people improved the quality of their music then we wouldn't need so many new tunes, and so many groups forming and vapourizing. | |
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Posted: 12/1/2005 5:19:37 PM | RE: Mozart
If you want a real chuckle - look for Mozart's Ein Musikalischer Spass (A Musical Joke) - he rakes everyone over the coals in that one, composers - musicians - even going so far as to intentionally write wrong notes in some of the parts. Of course - being Mozart, the parts are still devilishly difficult to play.
Another one that really made me stop and say "What the hell was that" - was written by Mozart's father Leopold - his Sinfonia da caccia for Four Horns, Shotgun and Strings ... | |
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Posted: 12/1/2005 11:52:15 PM | I'm going to hear what is probably my fave symphony in less than two weeks: Shostakovich's Symphony no 7.
75 minutes of bliss whenever I put it on the headphones. Can't imagine what it'll be like live.
edit: re musicman's msg 92: Shostakovich's Symphony no 15 has similar satirical elements with a rendition of Rossini's "William Tell Overture" amongst the lassitude and ennui. Great stuff. | |
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Posted: 12/2/2005 4:23:52 AM | ^^ should be fantastic!! enjoy it - like I've been trying to convince Ali, recordings are great, but there is NOTHING like live (probably applies to most things in life).
and yeah- re: the satirical elements in Shostakovich's symphonies - there's stuff like this all throughout the literature. Our 'impression' of the master composers is that they were these old somber, serious, straight laced guys - in many cases this couldn't be further from the truth. Hell - Brahms grew up playing piano in whore houses...
Shostakovich was a particularly interesting case, because for so many years his music had to be pleasing to Stalin - or he literally risked his life. He was considered a pawn of the state by people in the west - until his diary was published and everyone found out what he was really going through, and what the real meaning was behind his symphonies. Fascinating stuff.
Final note - I was in Germany on a business trip about 10 years ago - happened to be walking by a building on my last day there, and saw a sign advertising the Moscow Philharmonic performing Shosty's Symphony #5 that evening. Snatched up tickets right away - and what a fabulous performance, raw and emotional... | |
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Posted: 3/9/2006 12:03:55 PM | Wow! I had almost given up hope. I have been here two weeks at POF and was beginning to think I would never find you guys.
Give me a bit of time to read up and I will post my views here.
And yes, definitely, I have loved classical music since the age of two.
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Posted: 3/9/2006 12:49:56 PM | (New to this place and these threads are very impressive - apparently I'm on 'page 6 of 5')
I love classical music - I adore early Monteverdi, Baroque, Mozart thru' to Messiaen. We studied the 'Turangalila' Symphony for 'A' level Music and whilst it's not easy listening, it's unforgettable.
I love to listen to strings these days.
If anyone's anywhere near Sheffield (UK) this weekend, I'm singing in a Bach CHoir and we are doing all sorts of wonderful pieces. Well, I hope they're going to be wonderful, anyway. If they aren't, it won't be the composers' faults.  | |
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Posted: 3/9/2006 2:11:08 PM | the score calls for five groups of loudspeakers to be set up surrounding the audience.
Thats right up my street. I had to go out and purchase Klipschorns to even get close to the intended sound. I got the proper bass, but not the surround. 1967...what a wonderful time.
Die Zauberflotte
It is still amazing to me that a human voice can even do that. The person (sorry, don't remember her name) who performed that bit in the movie "Amadeus" was incredible... Of course that whole movie was tops. | |
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