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« Reply #50 on: 24 Apr 2005, 21:38 »

I can't say I like Mozart Haydn or Beethoven, because there's stuff of theirs i don't like also. However, I've been big into Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Stravinsky, and Prokof'iev.
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« Reply #51 on: 25 Apr 2005, 04:58 »

I'm listening to Brahms right now - "Ein Deutsches Requiem"

guess what my favourite musical form is?

That's right: requiems and masses.
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« Reply #52 on: 25 Apr 2005, 08:37 »

I've recently started playing my viola again which as revived my interested in classical music.  Last night when I was going to bed I listened to Dvorak's 8th symphony and then on the way to school this morning I listened to Dvorak's "American" quartet.  It was lovely.  

In 12th grade, they gave these "awards" to all the seniors.  Mine was "Most likely to be a music teacher who only teaches Dvorak".  Hehe.  This was because I really, really wanted to play that quartet but all the people in my quartet were wusses who thought it was too hard.
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« Reply #53 on: 25 Apr 2005, 14:55 »

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guess what my favourite musical form is?

That's right: requiems and masses.


This is simply awesome.
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« Reply #54 on: 25 Apr 2005, 15:34 »

Uh-hyup. Me does the bad grammar do I.

Seriously, those two forms are easily my favourites. I just love the way choirs and orchestras sound together.
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« Reply #55 on: 25 Apr 2005, 15:41 »

One of my favorite composers is Mahler.   I think.  I am forgetfull when it comes to all the music stuff I've learned.
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« Reply #56 on: 25 Apr 2005, 15:45 »

Requiems just sound absolutely gorgeous. My choir is doing Mozarts Lacrymosa and it makes me giddy to sing it.
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« Reply #57 on: 25 Apr 2005, 15:58 »

*envy*

I'd love to do that. Need a bass-baritone?

I think the most effective concert I ever went to was when the national Youth Orchestra of Wales and the National Youth Choir of Wales got together to perform Karl Jenkins' "The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace"

blew me away. Seriously, people were crying during that one.

I played Tuba when my orchestra did it last November in Brecon Cathedral, in the same concert where we did Faure's (sp?) requiem. One of our best concerts, though since surpassed by the concert we did this month, where our leader did a fantastic job of Tchaikovsky's violin concerto. i wish I'd recorded it, he absolutely nailed it.

I love my orchestra. We do some fantastic concerts, and I'm really proud (and lucky) to be a part of it. We did the 1812 overture in the mediterranean dome of the national botanical gardens (wales), complete with cannon, guns and fireworks. glorious stuff.

our leader, actually, is a real blessing. his name's Rhys Watkins, and he is, without a doubt, the best violin player I have ever known. he's twenty-eight years old, and I have never heard anybody who plays "Schindler's List" anywhere near as well as he does it.

And our real claim to fame is that we once played with Katherine Jenkins (the famous soprano). Hell, our regular tenor almost had a nervous breakdown having to sing alongside her. Apparently, she slipped out of her top during rehearsal, but only our conductor noticed, more's the pity.
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« Reply #58 on: 25 Apr 2005, 17:08 »

Sadly our bass-bari section is full (though there's only four of us you can actually hear).
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« Reply #59 on: 26 Apr 2005, 08:20 »

damn.

Eh, no matter, really. We've got a concert in two months that promises to rock at least a half a dozen socks.
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« Reply #60 on: 26 Apr 2005, 16:56 »

We had our first performance today. Is it wrong that I get tingly when singing the Lacrymosa?
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« Reply #61 on: 26 Apr 2005, 17:04 »

Not at all. I think I'd burst out crying. In fact, Mozart himself couldn't get past the first 8 bars without breaking down.
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« Reply #62 on: 26 Apr 2005, 19:01 »

Actually I think it depends where you get tingly.
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« Reply #63 on: 26 Apr 2005, 19:10 »

all over the place
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« Reply #64 on: 26 Apr 2005, 19:16 »

hmm...yeah, that's not wrong.
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« Reply #65 on: 27 Apr 2005, 15:55 »

aww man... The BBC symphony orchestra's playing Beethoven's 5th in the Brangwyn Hall on Friday, and I can't go...
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« Reply #66 on: 27 Apr 2005, 15:59 »

stravinsky, anyone?
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« Reply #67 on: 27 Apr 2005, 16:46 »

I am always for Ludwig Van, and some good old fasioned....
Eh, sorry I'll stop it there.
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« Reply #68 on: 29 Apr 2005, 16:55 »

urgh

my local wind band has started playing an arrangement of the music from "The Lord of The Rings" arranged by by a guy who really should have been tortured to death with a cheesegrater rather than let anywhere near that music. The result is the audible equivelant of a happy meal with half a rat in the french fries.
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« Reply #69 on: 29 Apr 2005, 16:57 »

Why do people think arranging the hottest thing in "classical" styles is cool?
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« Reply #70 on: 29 Apr 2005, 17:40 »

Because they make a shitload of money when crappy local bands buy their second-rate pretentious shit so that they can experience some kind of cheap thrill at playing "big movie music" in the town hall?
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« Reply #71 on: 29 Apr 2005, 17:46 »

problem is (at least in America) arrangers don't make money except the initial fee they charge to arrange the piece. Any money made off the perfomance mainly goes to the composer.
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