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Post by scream on Feb 12, 2024 18:11:31 GMT
I've been a Classical fan for decades, and haven't seen anyone over here mention anything about it. Many years ago, I learned how to play a Bach adagio on a pipe organ, and have been hooked ever since. "Amadeus" is, imho, one of the best films ever, especially because of Mozart's music. Even "Rollerball" has a piece by Thomaso Albinoni that is amazing.
Anyone here that has a similar interest?
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 13, 2024 5:37:46 GMT
I have been a fan of orchestral music since I was in the 10th grade. That year I bought a set (only vinyl was available at the time) of the complete Beethoven Symphonies. From there I branched out. Schumann's "Rhenish" Symphony and Franck's Symphony in d minor were early purchases. I didn't get to Opera until another 15-years had past. I had listened to opera on records but had never seen a live presentation, so I tuned into the Metropolitan Opera's very first TV broadcast in March 1977. It was La Boheme and I was gobsmacked. Fan for life after that.
Since the Beatles broke up in 1970, I haven't paid much attention to pop music except for the "classical" era of popular music: top hits of the 1950s and 1960s, and my parent's generation, the Great American Songbook - songs of the likes of George Gershwin (already a staple in concert halls and on classical radio), Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and Jerome Kern.
Just for fun, here is classical superstar pianist Yuja Wang playing Flight Of The Bumblebee and, for classical rock & roll, you can't beat Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" with Bruce Springsteen.
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Post by Catman on Feb 13, 2024 5:46:40 GMT
Catman prefers 'classical' music.
Still get a chuckle from the musical lock joke in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
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Post by scream on Feb 13, 2024 6:10:56 GMT
I have been a fan of orchestral music since I was in the 10th grade. That year I bought a set (only vinyl was available at the time) of the complete Beethoven Symphonies. From there I branched out. Schumann's "Rhenish" Symphony and Franck's Symphony in d minor were early purchases. I didn't get to Opera until another 15-years had past. I had listened to opera on records but had never seen a live presentation, so I tuned into the Metropolitan Opera's very first TV broadcast in March 1977. It was La Boheme and I was gobsmacked. Fan for life after that. Since the Beatles broke up in 1970, I haven't paid much attention to pop music except for the "classical" era of popular music: top hits of the 1950s and 1960s, and my parent's generation, the Great American Songbook - songs of the likes of George Gershwin (already a staple in concert halls and on classical radio), Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and Jerome Kern. Just for fun, here is classical superstar pianist Yuja Wang playing Flight Of The Bumblebee and, for classical rock & roll, you can't beat Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" with Bruce Springsteen. Holy cow, that pianist! That was amazing! And Roy? Always a classic. I just recently saw the movie 'Moonstuck' where Cher and Nicholas Cage go to see La Boheme at the Met. I had seen it before, but this time, I saw that the Met was a character in the movie, too, it tied the whole thing together. |
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Post by scream on Feb 13, 2024 6:13:23 GMT
Catman prefers 'classical' music. Still get a chuckle from the musical lock joke in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I highly suspected that Catman was a classical music kind of guy! I never saw the Willy Wonka movie; I know, I am culturally deprived! |
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Post by marianne48 on Feb 14, 2024 3:47:06 GMT
I love classical, and I dislike the stereotype of classical music fans as elitist, stodgy, etc. Especially as I was first introduced to the genre thanks to Looney Tunes and other classic cartoons.
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 14, 2024 5:21:22 GMT
I love classical, and I dislike the stereotype of classical music fans as elitist, stodgy, etc. Especially as I was first introduced to the genre thanks to Looney Tunes and other classic cartoons. "Kill the wabbit." I never knew I was listening to Wagner while watching this Bugs Bunny cartoon. I just love the classic movie cartoons with classic music. |
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Post by mowlick on Feb 15, 2024 12:08:38 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 15, 2024 16:22:09 GMT
I’ve been listening to “classical” music since I was a little kid, in part because of movies (Korngold! Herrmann! John Williams!), but I only seriously got into it when I was in college. I always feel out of my depth in talking about it, though, because of how much I don’t know (I know what I like, but I lack the vocabulary to talk intelligently about it).
Still, a majority of what I listen to is either classical or show tunes (and, for the latter, I prefer the “Golden Age” show tunes, when most of the composers had classical training, and/or also wrote classical, and used it in their theater music).
I’m not as into opera as I wish I were… I do like Mozart, Carmen, Britten—operas with faster paces—maybe because I grew up on musicals and like their marriage of words and music.
But I love classical instrumental music. My favorites are Ravel (lots of Ravel), Stravinsky, Britten, Alban Berg, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Charles Ives… and probably others who aren’t coming to mind. But definitely those.
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Post by mowlick on Feb 15, 2024 23:00:12 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 16, 2024 19:39:10 GMT
Extended high-C at 3:35 that draws mid-aria applause. Thanks for posting this. |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 17, 2024 1:44:09 GMT
Love it.
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Post by papamihel on Feb 20, 2024 10:30:10 GMT
Jill was very much into the classics.
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Post by general313 on Mar 11, 2024 23:34:57 GMT
I listen to a lot of kinds of music, but classical is easily my favorite. From Bach to Bartok and beyond in both directions.
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Post by general313 on Mar 11, 2024 23:40:12 GMT
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