Time to Settle in for the Winter?

I loved Pink Floyd.
They came here to perform at the Canandaigua Arts Center ages ago. They performed with the Rochester Phil. What a night.
Guess I'm glad I dont know toooo much about music. Just what I like.
Started out to be a classical singer, onee year in music school then I got married, nuff said about thet.

I esp. hate them in Schoenberg!!

Just kidding .... I actually like Schoenberg! Esp. the Sprechstimme Pierrot Lunaire. Der Mondfleck is a special favorite .... Gloomy black bats!

Now, Webern .... is another story!

I do love the Floyd.

Where does the aria "songs to the moon" come from.
Is it Lachema?

I believe that is Dvorak's Rusalka

I like to play the kazoo to Partridge family classics.

I LOVE TECHNOLOGY
Just heard Rusalka on Utube, I was transported, made me cry so, I almost paid $50.00 to hear Renee Flemming sing it but caught myself up short and bought it used. Thanks all you used book and record people out there.

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That Depression quiz was interesting. We have lots of savings (I'm paranoid about retirement), but don't grow veggies and I don't like cooking (but if I wasn't working, I'd have time even though I wouldn't like it). So I'm a 46%.

Oh, and I don't know how to start a fire :) That's one of the problems with moving from warm to cold climate (and why I bought a newly built house...what is this rumor I hear about freezing pipes? What???). hee hee

As far as music, I'm probably one of the few "youngin's" to like classical. I grew up playing violin for a while (not very well) and like anything with strings. Get "band" instruments in there and you lose me (esp horns/brass....OMG I hate their sound in any kind of music).

But give me my rock. Lots of interesting things can go on in rock music, too!

I went back for another cry and played it again.

I like strings too - especially bikinis. Hee hee!^_^

Actually I do like classical too. Don't know anything about it. Just know what I like when I hear it. Some of it is horribly dreary and depressing. Other stuff is the most uplifting music ever created.

I could ruff out a depression. Not needy. Matches a good supply of matches, batteries and rice.

I dont have a gun so cant go hunting. I have a fish pole and supplies.
The killer for a while until I got used to it would be no computer!

We have guns, fishing poles, boats, nets, fireplace's (one inside, one outside) and we have well water and grow a big garden.

Rusalka is good stuff, for sure ... I like Puccini stuff a lot, too

"good music" in any genre is hard to find, and then .... some of it you find and hate at first, then it goes and becomes a top favorites .... go figure.

Here's a clip of the symph I mentioned above, if you care to give it a listen:

http://67.246.179.135/Shosh.mp3

1st mvt. Picture a Siberian Tundra with the sun low on the horizon ....... I like the part where the horses come striding in ...... though, it may paint a different picture for you ......

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That kind of music should be played on an old Victrola. You know the one there with the horn.

I have one of those ..... too many pops and scratches .... digital, baby! that's the remastered way to go!!!

:-)

I had heard Andrew Lloyd Weber compared to Puccini who was not so much of a composer as a musical writter.
It put Weber in a dance hall category sort of .

I find Lloyd Weber too cliché

Ralph (pronounced as Raif) Vaughn Williams .... now THAT is some composing!!
esp.
Serenade to Music
Toward the Unknown Region
His symphonies......

edit: typo

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Agreed, Andrew Lloyd Weber, too much of his most famous stuff is right from Bernstein or Puccini or other serious composers. I guess "derivative" would be the word.

Some girl in one of DH's courses last semester did a report on Bellini, because she remembered playing something by him that she had liked. She was UNpleasantly surprised to learn that he mostly composed OPERAS because she thought they were too screechy!

Oh, the horses just came striding in!!! Thanks for the clip. Now I have to go listen to Rusalka! (Never know what you will learn on DG!)

JoAnn, what is she singing about, besides the moon? My Russian is a little weak and my Czechoslovakian is worse.

Here is a source for any Aria libretti and translations of text.

http://www.aria-database.com/cgi-bin/aria-search.pl?opera=Rusalka&a

That link is directly to Song of the moon

Thanks!

I know what you mean about hearing inversions and second themes in the home key restated - it's like counting the innings in a baseball game. DH and I play guess the composer when we can find a station that plays something that we haven't heard before.

It's not the operas which are screechy .... it's the vocalists!! :-)

The worst offenders are those who sing in the Bel Canto style of singing ..... ACK! But, THAT is what the "learned" listener wants to hear ...... But, that is just my preference .... now I have more of an appreciation of that style ..... I still prefer good blues vocalists.


mmmmm Bessie Smith

After the German, Russian and Polish composers (which are all about the borders in any particular year) we can move on to Bessie Smith who, I think, is from Tennessee. I love Bessie Smith, Janis Joplin, Roy Orbison, Eric Clapton, K.D. Lang and the Traveling Wilburys. How can you have a serious discussion of opera here at DG? It's enough to say you love Puccini.
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I loved Pink Floyd, The Wall. Whenever I hear something from that album on the radio I have to turn it up. Oh, now I'm listening to it on YouTube. Couldn't resist.

Karen

You dont expect me to know more than two languages do you?
I'm flattered.
Willi has unplummmed depths and a great memory and facility for music history.
Willi cleche' is the word to use.
I dont take any music or musician seriously who has to rely on jerking my emotions around that goes for this age too.
Thats why I loved the early Dylan and Springsteen. They were troubadores who told stories of the times .

Don't forget Roy Harper!

I was never a fan.
I couldn't buy records when I was a kid so I listened to what my parents had. They had the classics and some Nelson Eddy.
I wasn't a Elvis fan either

I think the reason Elvis made it so big was that he was vulgar ...... and, unfortunately, sex sells .......

Pop music has gone down hill since then.None of the new pop singers have anything to say.

Oh Elvis and The Beatles - I can remember the young girls fainting...............

Anything good now-a-days is underground. There is still a lot of good stuff out there, but the recording industries' management does a great job making it look like there is only crap out there ...... And then they want to charge more and put grandmothers in jail.

I am glad the internet provides an accessible gateway for the underground musicians to get their stuff out there to the masses.

Any further comments on what I think about the recording industry might qualify as a TOS violation, so I shall "refrain." (pun intended)

Who knew!

I like classical but none of the dark depressing stuff for me

Wow - no good pop music since Elvis??!!

I can remember the young girls fainting
I read that as farting....which is much funnier :)

There's some good commercial stuff, it just depends on your style. Our Lady Peace's album "Happiness... Is not a fish you can catch" is awesome.

I mean, there's a song about being stood up: "I must have been bored And knocked down and I, I must have been bored. ... I must be too dumb to be proud Because I waited, waited."

I love that whole album. And the band. Good stuff.

Even the new Guns n Roses album has "smart" musical stuff. My husband started playing guitar at 9 and he hears all sorts of things (probably unneeded) that most folks wouldn't.

Band of Horses is doing some good, interesting stuff too.

OK, I'll stop now :)

oh, wait, one more. Extreme from the late 80's/early 90's is great musically. Extremely talented musicians. Their "3 Sides to Every Story" album has some amazing stuff.

Victor your Illinoise comment sent me to the news.
Holy cow, how did he think he would get away with it.
Makes Gov. Spitzer look like a sundayschool boy.

I tried to call his office and put in my bid, but he laughed at me.

:-(

Your better off where you are unless you want the constant hassle of women who are looking for powerfull men to use.
My X was a feature baseball writer for the local paper when the Rochester Red Wings were a farm team for th St.Louis Cardinals.
He told stories of what some women would do just to have a five minute conversation with the players.

Thought this bit of trivia was interesting. Heard it on the radio today, so I had to Google it. So 2008 will be one second longer than usual.

http://wtopnews.com/?nid=220&sid=1542067

Karen

They do that every few years. Great to have that extra sleep.