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Posted: 1/5/2005 4:06:54 PM | Classical Music (....... ask John Cage........ )
It was a special time in my life……….
The light was almost blinding………….
Trembling with emotion I slowly opened the ornate bronze doors………….
Finally finding truth……… such a long, long, journey………………
It was............................................ a special time in my life………..
The timeless hall beckoned to me……….
Glistening white marble columns reaching to a new forever……..
Shimmering transparent clouds of celestial energy as my roof………
Its’ emptiness took my breath away……..
It was................................ a special time in my life……..
With such hypnotic wonders about me….…........glowing ..... graceful flowing rhythms of infinity...
I hardly took notice of that tiny dark mouse hole in the corner……..
But many,...... many, years later……….. to my great surprise………
I walked out…............…out through that impossible little doorway………
Yes………............…….It was a very special time in my my life ...... | |
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Posted: 3/25/2005 1:32:10 AM | Yeah am a casual classical music lover...
Bach etc.. new age etc.. meditation etc.. | |
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Posted: 3/25/2005 2:48:44 PM | So long as its just the MUSIC
opera singing leaves me cold [even if they do have amazing voices]
Grieg Vivaldi Some Wagner ....Some Bethoven and Mozart
Too many other individual pieces to list here
But in the same collection Ive got everything from Mettallica to Evanescence and heaps of Blues etc
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Posted: 3/25/2005 3:18:20 PM | I'm obsessed with Shostakovich. Have about 30 CDs -- all his symphonies and string quartets.
Haydn's my no 2 fave.
Good symphony orch in my city, also lots of excellent chamber music venues. | |
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Posted: 3/26/2005 1:05:06 PM | | Our orchestra just finished playing Beethoven's 3rd Symphony, and I really grew to love it. Even the second movement, which is a death march. I learned that B. wrote this symphony originally for Napoleon, because he admired his "heroics" (Eroica), but scratched it off when N. named himself Emperor of France - just a bit of trivia.... | |
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Posted: 3/26/2005 1:30:42 PM | me me me!
but I am really bad in remembering the names of the composers.
currently listening to the Brandenburg Concerts by Bach | |
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Posted: 3/29/2005 8:23:16 AM | i grew up with traditional classical music - love operas - love the three tenors - love how it reaches inside of you and takes a hold until its ready to let you go
i can sit with ear phones on and have it just a tad high and sigh from everything that evolves around
i love the sound of the harp and violins together
i was a bad piano student - but my love for it has lasted
mozarts piano concerto no. 26 in D minor - listening to it right now - reminds me of the old movies where people would do a waltz and talk about all the other women in the room very snobby like lol
i love classical
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Posted: 3/29/2005 9:33:49 AM | Mahler most closely fits my moods lately.
I don't really get into small ensembles or chamber music. I go for the works that require a large orchestra, and I REALLY love organ music.
My favorite organ, over here in NYC at The Cathedral of St John the Devine, has been undergoing repairs for a long while. I need an organ fix very badly, LOL!
I'd really love to hear Saint-Saens' 3rd Sym played in a venue that actually had a great organ. That would be incredible. | |
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Posted: 3/29/2005 5:44:49 PM | | I love classical music...favourite composers that I listen to, as well as play (violin and piano) include Vivaldi, Beethoven, Bach, I can go on but don't want to bore anyone...hehe I love the opera, live symphonies, anything I can get my ears to. | |
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Posted: 3/30/2005 10:27:31 AM | | NPR is a great radio station. Especially when I'm bored and/or tired of listening to other kinds of music. | |
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Posted: 4/3/2006 9:03:37 PM | Right here! I'm afraid its my life. I'm a trained concert pianist with a doctoral degree in piano pedagogy and performance. Sounds impressive but have haven't found a job yet. I have quite a wide taste but I tend to circle back to the great greet composers: Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Berg and Bartok (almost all B's !). My specialist is Liszt but not the flashing lady fainting stuff. I'm into his more progressive style, a style that help influence Wagner.
Enought of that - what are your favourite composers. I just sort of dove in here and havent' properly read the forums so.....Do you play?
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Posted: 4/4/2006 5:06:23 PM | | Hey Rich. Nice to welcome another classical music fan. There are not many of us here. You really like Berg? That kind of stuff gives me a headache. Late romantic music is my favorite. Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninof, Dvorak, Verdi, and Wagner. But there are MANY more that I love. In the past few years I have been seeking out lesser known composers and there are many. My favorites are from Russia and Scandinavia. Melartin, Madetoja, Ludolf Nielsen are good. Taneyev is an excellent Russian. Ever hear the Ostrcil Symphony? | |
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Posted: 4/5/2006 9:10:41 PM | | Yes, absolutely. One of the things that has connected me to some women, particularly my ex, is the shared appreciation of a phrase executed so as to touch the very soul. OK, that oozes but if it works for you - you know what I mean. It does for me. | |
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Posted: 4/6/2006 3:35:08 PM | I love classical music although I do listen to lots of other genres of music minus the rap with a silent "C" LOL
I really enjoy all the favorites as do I enjoy Andre Rieu, Kitaro and one I came across not long ago by the name of Ernesto Cortazar who is just fabulous. I also love to listen to Gheorghe Zamfir on the panflute.
Music is the wine of the soul in my world it is what keeps my chin up when times are rough. | |
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Posted: 4/16/2006 7:24:58 PM | I'm too a very big fan of Classical Music. I go to Strathmore at least 4 times a season, and more if I can make it. Just on the 8th saw the National Symphony Orchestra with Cho Liang Lin do Beethoven's Violin Concerto. He was superb. Best I've heard since Perlman. A few years back I was lucky enough to have seats on the stage at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall to watch him perform.
I have a collection which includes both CPE and J.S. Bach, the Beatles, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Handel, Haydn, Hummel, Liszt, Mahler, Mozard, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Salieri, Saval, Schubert, Schumann, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Walton, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and many more on CD and iTunes. For me it is hard to pick between Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, and Chopin and Tchaikovsky as favorites, though I often thing Beethoven was the best. Having a hard time find other Classical music fans in my area except when I go to Strathmore. Trying to bust my courage and start taking piano lessons again.
But I'd also like to find someone who enjoys music as much as I do and just to sit down and listen to it.
Anybody got any hints is welcome to e-mail me in my profile. And if you are local maybe we could meet at a Wolf Trapp, Kennedy Center or Strathmore concert. Another other good places for Classical music in the area I'd also like to know about if it is happening on weekends, or is an easy drive out of rush hour traffic?
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Posted: 4/17/2006 1:38:07 PM | | There is something for every mood with classical music so yes, I am a fan. Recently became enamoured with Narcisco Yepes, who plays the most wonderful guitar. Try to find his Jeux interdits by Chopin or any of his works. Virtuosity at it's best. He moves my soul | |
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Posted: 4/28/2006 7:48:21 AM | | I became a fan of classical music at an early age.Actually, I've always been very ecclectic as I grew up in a musical family.My parents were musicians, country gospel, so I had that background.I think I was about 15 when I learned that everyone didn't have musical instruments in their house and had musicians over three or four times a week to practice.I remember I used to watch the Huntley/Brinkley report as a kid (NBC Nightly News) and they used to close the show with the second movement of Beethoven's Ninth ( anyone else remember that?).I was about 9 then and started takiing violin lessons and for four years I played in the Charleston County Youth String Orchestra.So along with the country, the Beatles,Dylan and others that were popular at the time, I loved classical.I'm a big Bach and Handel fan.I got the cinematography bug at age 12, so I didn't stick with music, but it's still played a very important part of my life.One of my biggest classical influences was the film A Clockwork Orange with it's awesome electronic Beethoven soundtrack done by Walter ( now Wendy) Carlos.Anyone else own the Clockwork soundtrack?I think I wore the cassette out. | |
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Posted: 4/29/2006 1:46:19 PM | I would have to say my absolute favourite is Flight Of The Valkyries.
You should see the looks on kids faces when I drive by blasting that on the stereo. | |
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Posted: 4/30/2006 7:10:51 PM | | I read about a study that said ride of the Valkyries is the worst thing to listen to when you are driving because it is the most likely to make you go over the speed limit. I find that the finale of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto does that to me. | |
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