CLASSICAL MUSIC ANYONE?


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romanticgirl61 is offline romanticgirl61 Post #11  August 5,2008, 11:59pm
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There's a just "Sebastian" Bach?
 
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Sebastian Bach. From the band Skid Row.
 
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Well, that explains why I don't know of Sebastian Bach! He's in a BAND! lol


I'm in the dark when it comes to today's pop/rock music. Only exposure I've had to today's music is from my son who is my little rock and roller (got that gene from his dad, NOT ME! lol).


BRIX ... are you playing or singing music at all anymore?
 
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Um, RG...that band is from the 80s. (: I have not played or sung in a long while, although I have toyed with the possibilities.
 
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Happy to know there are a handful of others out there who appreciate classical music. I like Vivaldi but Rachmaninov stirs my soul. Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor will take you on a journey unlike no other.
 
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I love classical music -- especially anything Baroque (Bach, Handel, Vivaldi), Contemporary composers (I LOVE Copland), and choral music (Britten, Palestrina, Eric Whitacre). NPR is one of my pre-set radio stations.
 
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I like Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Debussey, John Cage, Henery Cowwell, Current 2oth centery composers like Toru Takemitsu, Elliot Carter, Nobuo Uematsu, and I do think I make some good pieces as well
 
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I'm totally into classical music. I studied piano for about four years, and studied theory for about ten. I love J.S.Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Wagner, Dvorak, and a tiny bit of Bruckner. (NOt everything by each of them; I have my favorites and stick to them.) [I also like Gibbons, Tallis, Byrd, Dowland and Purcell. I always forget to include them! Please be patient with me, everybody, because not a lot of people care to ask a question about classical music, and when I get the chance...]


I play the piano, and I've played organ when there hasn't been an organist around (no pedals!). I can also play the recorder, but only simple tunes.


I think I know the Poulenc sonata (in G?) that you mention. It is really a brilliant piece (and the piano part is not easy. Believe me, I have tried.)


I'm terrible at sight reading. I have to almost memorize something before I can play it (except hymns, which are obviously sort of easy).
 
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I love classical music, but unfortunately haven't committed many composers and their works to memory. Though, currently I am learning a classical repertoire (soprano) which includes a lot of operatic work, which I often have a love/hate relationship with. I love it because the music is beautiful and the stories are so interesting, but sometimes hate it because learning proper technique can impeded my process on a piece. But when it's all finished, memorized, and at performance level, it's worth it!
 
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As Nixon used to say, "I'm glad you asked that question."





Music has, and always will be, my first love. I was introduced to classical music at a very young age; in fact, Swan Lake was the first musical work that I became famliar with at the ripe age of five. My mother says I was so enthralled by it that I wanted to take our record of it to kindergarten for Show and Tell (can't recall if I actually did or not).





I studied piano and theory with my grandmother as a kid. She was a pianist herself and was in dominant seventh heaven when she realized I was musically inclined (we had enough engineers in the family already). Then in sixth grade, I began taking drum lessons. It wasn't until I entered high school that it all came together, so to speak. My band director was a percussionist and a Juillard graduate, and when he found out I had absloute pitch, he suggested I play timpani. Well, as they say, the rest is history. I went on to major in music in college and while my daily job is in the real world, I never put the timpani mallets away and today am timpanist of a Denver orchestra (no, not the Colorado Symphony). Last summer I saw my old band director for the first time in over 30 years and was able to tell him that thanks to him, I'm still playing timpani today.





Beethoven ranks first among my favorite composers. He knew how to write for timpani. Chaikovsky (the T is unneccesary, so I read) is up there, too, along with Brahms, Dvorak and Mendelssohn. Over the years I've played much of the standard repertoire. I've done the entire Nutcracker twice and know it inside out. Mozart is wonderful, but IMHO it's almost too pure, although I LOVEthe alla turca movement from his A Major piano sonata, K331. Although I'm not much of an opera buff, Marriage of Figaro is my favorite - mainly because no one dies.





I was always strong in theory and love to talk music, but I can count on one hand the number of people I know with whom I can talkmusic in depth. Once I get going, good luck trying to shut me up! It's like trying to recork a gushing champagne bottle.
 
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