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While I am certainly not an expert like Damelon or Fist & Faith, I love many pieces of classical music.
How many other people here are into classical, opera, or ballet??
How many other people here are into classical, opera, or ballet??
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I'm torn between wanting to post about classical music, and NOT wanting 5 WGD's to go to anyone else for my post in a thread that I would have created, had I seen the offer first, and got 50 WGD's for!! But since I love duchess to death, I'll post.
Damelon, remember that enjoying listening to classical music is the VERY most important thing. Of course, the great composers could listen to it in their heads just by looking at the notation, without ever hearing a performance or recording. But for the rest of us, studying music without listening to it is incomprehensibly silly.
Damelon, remember that enjoying listening to classical music is the VERY most important thing. Of course, the great composers could listen to it in their heads just by looking at the notation, without ever hearing a performance or recording. But for the rest of us, studying music without listening to it is incomprehensibly silly.
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I grew up on classical music. My parents always played it. Two of my favorites are The Firebird Suite by Stravinski and Mahler's First Symphony. Both have some very dramatic moments in them.
I like a lot of other classical, those are the two that came to mind off the top of my head.
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I like a lot of other classical, those are the two that came to mind off the top of my head.
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Frank Zappa. Hasn't anyone heard of him? Not the rock, as much as I loved that, I mean his Orchestral productions? The man was a musical Genius.
Not by any stretch of the imagination classical music, mind.
I will donate 15wgd to anyone who finds and listens to the cd Boulez conducts Zappa (The Perfect Stranger and other chamber works performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort), or his London symphony orchestra stuff!!
Not by any stretch of the imagination classical music, mind.
I will donate 15wgd to anyone who finds and listens to the cd Boulez conducts Zappa (The Perfect Stranger and other chamber works performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort), or his London symphony orchestra stuff!!
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You mean the guy who named his kids Ommet (sp?) and Dweezil... and heck, what's his daughter's name... ah, yes. Moon Unit.
My mom mentioned his music a couple of times, but I've never really run across any of it.
My mom mentioned his music a couple of times, but I've never really run across any of it.
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I remember Yellow Sharks. I thought it was pretty good. When it came out, and we had it on in-store play, I told a guy I worked with that part of it reminded me of a piece called Ionisation by Edgar Varese. He told me that Varese had been one of Zappa's influences.
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And disregards the rest -Paul Simon