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Re: my favourite music
By: Lyn Date: June 19, 2024, 8:50 am
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I too have always been fond of opera, Bev. I'm not familiar with
'math rock' but it sounds interesting, fusion-like.
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Re: my favourite music
By: gwinnie Date: June 19, 2024, 5:12 pm
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I like it. I’ll put it on tomorrow when I’m in my office as I
listen to music to help me focus. I tend to listen to classical,
lo-fi and ambient. Nothing boppy or with lyrics as that would
have the opposite effect!
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Re: my favourite music
By: Gregory Date: June 21, 2024, 2:33 am
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[quote author=gwinnie link=topic=175.msg16947#msg16947
date=1718835145]
I like it. I’ll put it on tomorrow when I’m in my office as I
listen to music to help me focus. I tend to listen to classical,
lo-fi and ambient. Nothing boppy or with lyrics as that would
have the opposite effect!
[/quote]
I had to look up lo-fi and ambient as I'd never heard of them in
a musical context before. Not really my cup of tea, especially
the latter which according to Wikipedia is largely electronic.
The only electronic music I'm familiar with is that of the 70's
German group Kraftwerk, which I disliked. Then, of course, there
is the electronic music of Karlheinz Stockhausen (mid- to late-
twentieth century) known as 'the father of electronic music'
within the classical framework.
What kind of classical music do you listen to?
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Re: my favourite music
By: gwinnie Date: June 21, 2024, 7:29 am
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The lo-fi etc is specifically for when I’m working at my
computer. I wouldn’t t sit and listen to it. I like it well
enough to have on in the background and it helps cover external
distractions, such as the usual office hustle and bustle. If I
put on something less beige,I’d be distracted by the music
instead!
Classical - I was introduced as a child to Prokofiev’s Peter and
the Wolf. From there I discovered Mozart and Beethoven. Next to
discover was Bach. I did not enjoy opera until I saw Amadeus!
More recently I have come to appreciate Elgar, who I found
boring on first hearing.
I have tried, but don’t like atonal, which I find jarring.
My son likes video games and some of the blockbuster games have
better scores than some Hollywood films!
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Re: my favourite music
By: Gregory Date: June 21, 2024, 12:36 pm
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I love Prokofiev's music. Of his seven symphonies, I
particularly like the Fifth and Sixth, the latter having been
composed at the end of the Second World War, and this is
reflected in the music. I also like his three piano sonatas, 6,
7 & 8, known as the War Sonatas as they were composed during the
Second World War. Lyn has mentioned The Dance Of The Knights
from his ballet Romeo and Juliet, so here it is:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_hOR50u7ek&list=RDZ_hOR50u7ek&start_radio=1<br
/>
On 20th. century Russian classical music, I also love
Shostakovich, with his fifteen symphonies (especially the
Fourth) and fifteen string quartets.
Elgar's two symphonies are great works, as is his Cello
Concerto, composed after the First World War and shot through
with nostalgia and regret for what had been lost. Here's a
performance by the great cellist, Jaqueline Du Pré, whose career
was tragically cut short by multiple sclerosis at the age of 27.
(The conductor is her then husband, Daniel Barenboim):
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgdbqt2ON0
I also love Beethoven (especially the Third and Seventh of his
symphonies) and Mozart (everything he composed), as well as
Haydn whose 104 symphonies, which I have in a boxed set, are
wonderful. I also like Bach but his music can be rather
academic. I prefer his contemporary, Telemann, whose works are
in the same Baroque vein but more tuneful Two of Bach's sons (he
had 18 children), Johann Christian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel
Bach, were already composing in the style of Haydn and Mozart.
Their symphonies are excellent. Mozart stayed with Johann
Christian as a child and clearly drew some inspiration from him.
Well, I'd better stop there before I go on all night! :o
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Re: my favourite music
By: Beverly Date: June 22, 2024, 9:37 am
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[quote author=gwinnie link=topic=175.msg16998#msg16998
date=1718972960]
The lo-fi etc is specifically for when I’m working at my
computer. I wouldn’t t sit and listen to it. I like it well
enough to have on in the background and it helps cover external
distractions, such as the usual office hustle and bustle. If I
put on something less beige,I’d be distracted by the music
instead![/quote]
This reminded me how I couldn’t listen to Jazz while working as
it took my head right out of whatever I needed to concentrate
on.
[quote]My son likes video games and some of the blockbuster
games have better scores than some Hollywood films!
[/quote]
This actually reminded me of my youngest first introducing me to
a band, that was kind of a forerunner to Math Rock, called Five
Silent Miles by American Football that he first heard on a video
game (don’t remember which one now.)
HTML https://youtu.be/87c8EPEnkWU?si=wVL50YvzfUOJjHSp
[quote author=Gregory link=topic=175.msg16919#msg16919
date=1718784680]
I'd say it's unlikely it could become a major genre like
jazz…[/quote]
You could be right. Right now, it’s considered a subgenre of
Rock. When I first heard it, I didn’t like it at all. I grew to
enjoy it very much (certain pieces)later on. On the classical
front, it reminded me somewhat of what I experienced when I
first listened to Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. That too took me
awhile to appreciate, and now I really love it. I remember
reading about his debut in Paris in 1913 and how some thought he
had gone mad.
HTML https://youtu.be/EkwqPJZe8ms?si=OkK2ABZqxq1-LFGc
I recently found Yvette Young in suggested listening in Math
Rock on YouTube music. This, from her Piano EP:
HTML https://youtu.be/rQizSeJ1PaU?si=1NFArrxTvT1_FRBT
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Re: my favourite music
By: Gregory Date: June 22, 2024, 10:59 am
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[quote author=Beverly link=topic=175.msg17019#msg17019
date=1719067062]
On the classical front, it reminded me somewhat of what I
experienced when I first listened to Stravinsky’s Rite of
Spring. That too took me awhile to appreciate, and now I really
love it. I remember reading about his debut in Paris in 1913 and
how some thought he had gone mad.
HTML https://youtu.be/EkwqPJZe8ms?si=OkK2ABZqxq1-LFGc
[/quote]
The premiere performance in Paris by Russian impresario Sergei
Diaghilev's Ballet Russes troupe in fact caused a near riot in
the theatre as it was unlike anything heard before. Actually, it
sounds quite mainstream to our ears now and it's one of my
favourite twentieth century works, from the haunting opening as
spring awakens to the pounding rhythms as the propritiatory
human sacrifice is readied. Here is the second part of the work
in a 1967 faithful recreation of the first performance in Paris
in 1913. The dancer who plays the sacrificial victim is
extraordinary.
HTML https://www.google.com/search?q=recreation+of+the+originalperformance+of+the+Rite+of+Spring&oq=recreation+of+the+originalperformance+of+the+Rite+of+Spring&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i10i160l3j33i10i21.33040j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4eaa07e9,vid:jo4sf2wT0wU,st:0
Incidentally, Simon Rattle (the conductor in your video) and the
Canadian philosopher Stephen Pinker, are both aging men with
long, curly white hair. Good for them!
HTML https://ethic.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Steven_Pinker.jpg
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Re: my favourite music
By: Beverly Date: June 23, 2024, 10:08 am
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The dancer link didn’t work for me. :(
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Re: my favourite musicOh, that0
By: Gregory Date: June 23, 2024, 1:32 pm
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Oh, that's a pity. Try this video which shows the sacrificial
dance which ends the piece, a faithful reconstruction of how
Nijinsky performed it in the 1913 premiere in a remarkable
performance by Marie-Claude Pietragalla:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6d8wacBjPQ
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Re: my favourite music
By: Beverly Date: June 24, 2024, 10:46 am
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That worked, Greg. Actually, I went in yesterday and watched
this performance thinking it must be what you had posted. It is
such a great performance.
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