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furs
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Aug 5 16:09 UTC 1991 |
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chelsea
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response 26 of 203:
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Aug 5 16:15 UTC 1991 |
I make a thing out of listening to Mahler's 9th. It's always very late
at night when I know I won't be disturbed. The lights are off, headphones
are on, and I'm comfy on the sofa. Then, for ninety minutes it's Mahler,
and Karajan, and something brilliant and magical. Maybe it's my occupation,
which daily puts me in touch with the fear and devastation accompanying
death and dying, that makes this piece so incredibly moving. Or maybe
it's the music. Either way, it works every time.
Drift: Educating Rita was a wonderful film, I agree. And if you
liked Rita you'll love Shirley Valentine.
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mew
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response 27 of 203:
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Sep 12 14:25 UTC 1991 |
Shameless Plug!:
I am performing with the Acadamy Of Early Music Choir in a concert to be
directed by Paul Hillier. The concert will be Sept 29? Sunday.
I can get tickets at a discount I think if anyone is interested.
We will be performing "A Chorus of Shepards" by Charpantier, and two
Pursell pieces. Funeral Sentences and Ode to St. Cecilia's Day.
They are really lovely pieces full of Purcellish neato wierd
harmonic stuff. (pardon the technical jargon. :-)
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danr
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response 28 of 203:
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Sep 12 16:00 UTC 1991 |
What time, what price, and where?
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steve
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response 29 of 203:
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Sep 14 19:39 UTC 1991 |
Wow. How much? Discounts are always appreciated!
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mew
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response 30 of 203:
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Sep 18 02:03 UTC 1991 |
Ok! The weekend is as follows:
Choral Afternoon - Saturday Sept. 28 2-4 pm at
St Andrew's Church.. Tickets at door $5.00 ($3.00 students and seniors)
Truthfully I am not exactly certain what this part entails... I think it
will include rehearsals and small group performances perhaps. This is
the WORKSHOP part of the weekend basically.
Paul Hillier in Concert with members of The Academy of Early Music.
Sunday September 29, 8pm at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church A2.
Tickets are available at the door, from me or ffrom Skr Classical
for $15 or $13 for students/seniors.
Here is the blurb:
A leading advocate of the art of song, Paul Hillier has
gained worldwide respect for his
expertise in a wide range of musical styles. Among his specialties are
programs of medieval song and the French art song repertoire. He has
also championed the music of contemporary Estonion composer Arvo Part,
performing and conducting many premiers of his work.
In addition to his solo engagements, Mr. Hillier founded and directs
The Theatre of voices. This ensemble promotes a variety of projects in the
field of vocal music, has toured throughout the U.S. and Europe, and
has recorded for ECM Records. Mr. Hillier was a founding member of the
Hilliard Ensemble of London England. He is in great demand as a guest
choral conductor, lecturer, teacher, and is currently on the music
faculty at the University of California, Davis.
(phew!) Think I'll leave off the additonal quotes praising him. :-)
(Trust me- they RAVE over this guy! ;-)
Hope to see lots of you there! I am very proud to be singing in this
choir.
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tcc
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response 31 of 203:
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Oct 9 08:34 UTC 1991 |
Holst. Lots of difficult to find Holst. "The Planets" -- all of them, just
simply marvelous. "St. Paul Suite" even played by a dippy HS orchestra
the syncopations draw me up and make me close my eyes.
re 20: And also partly because Walter Carlos mangled it to brilliantly.
If we are talking about "Legitimate Orchestral" music (commonly termed as
'classical') then I also dearly love Danny Elfman, Maurice Jarre, and
James Horner (Particularly the soundtrack to "Brainstorm".)
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furs
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response 32 of 203:
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Oct 9 11:46 UTC 1991 |
I also love Holst. We used to play alot of him in the Concert Band I was in.
I LOVE Mars and Jupiter.
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tcc
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response 33 of 203:
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Oct 29 00:21 UTC 1991 |
Hmm ... I've been listening to this one piece of orchestral music that I know
from the soundtrack of a porno movie I have.
It involves lots of cadenzas with big swooping chords, almost in a march
tempo. It's a full orchestra, backed by an organ at full-stop. It's loud
ecstatic and epiphanic. Who writes/wrote music like this?
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arthur
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response 34 of 203:
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Oct 29 00:24 UTC 1991 |
Organ, hmmm. Just the instrument for a porn flick.
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tcc
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response 35 of 203:
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Oct 29 00:35 UTC 1991 |
Actually 'leather' flix tend to have a great deal of dramatic music.
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bad
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response 36 of 203:
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Oct 29 05:10 UTC 1991 |
Who puts out soundtracks for porno movies?!
Or did you just tape it from the movie?
Most porno soundtracks I've heard (aside from the "uh uh take it take it
wooooooooooooooah whoah") sound like some geek with a casio.
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md
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response 37 of 203:
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Oct 29 13:56 UTC 1991 |
Sounds like you're describing Saint-Saens' 3rd Symphony. The last
movement is just like that.
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bad
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response 38 of 203:
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Oct 30 00:14 UTC 1991 |
Does that include the "uh uh take it take it" part, or just the geek with a
casio?
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mew
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response 39 of 203:
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Oct 30 04:22 UTC 1991 |
hee hee hee <mew giggles uncontrollably!>
I have this image of a stuffy fm classical station playing a Saint-Saens
symphony and realizing too late that they had played the "great classical
porn hits!" cd by mistake!
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bad
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response 40 of 203:
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Oct 30 08:15 UTC 1991 |
One track (musical) ends, a second of silence, then "Ooooooh Yes! Yes! Ungh!"
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polygon
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response 41 of 203:
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Oct 30 11:23 UTC 1991 |
As I understand it, a lot of porno movie soundtracks are original jazz or
rock (typically by someone not very good) because of the difficulties in
getting rights to better-known works for that purpose.
Music is played over the sex scenes because the "real" sound at that point
is shouted stage directions. The "ooh ah" sounds are recorded and dubbed
in later.
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bad
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response 42 of 203:
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Oct 30 18:12 UTC 1991 |
Nah, that's what they have directional mikes for.
Most don't go to the trouble of re-dubbing.
Put a regular condenser mike behind the directional (a mike with a
dish) and you get a whole different soundtrack, the stage directions,
as you say.
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steve
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response 43 of 203:
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Oct 31 03:54 UTC 1991 |
Gods, I want to hear the sounds from the director instead--
"You there! move your legs up!"
"Act like you're having fun!"
"Harder, *HARDER*!"
"DON'T STOP NOW, YOU IDIOT--"
That might make it worth it to see one.
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bad
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response 44 of 203:
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Oct 31 09:09 UTC 1991 |
You should rent one of the bloopers and out-takes tapes, STeve.
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steve
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response 45 of 203:
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Oct 31 21:20 UTC 1991 |
This is embarresing: this is supposed to be an item on *classical music*.
How we got off onto this tangent I'm not sure I want to know. Can we
steer the item back to something closer to its original topic? ;-)
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polygon
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response 46 of 203:
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Oct 31 21:34 UTC 1991 |
Uh, we were talking about Saint-Saens. (Never had any idea it was spelled
that way!)
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md
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response 47 of 203:
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Nov 1 14:13 UTC 1991 |
There's a diacritic over the "e" ("..").
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), French composer. His music was mostly
German Romantic stuff (he used to be called "the French Brahms") but with
touches of lightness and irony we think of as French. His most popular
piece is Carnival of the Animals. He thought of it as a pot boiler of no
consequence and didn't want it performed during his lifetime. His Third
Symphony, popularly known as The Organ Symphony, combines the sound of
a big late-Romantic orchestra with the apocalyptic sound of a pipe organ.
It sounds a bit corny in places, but despite that it has aged fairly well.
If you have a good stereo system and aren't afraid the turn the volume up,
the moment where the pianissimo transition between the third and fourth
movements resolves in a full-stop fortissimo C-major chord on the organ
has been known to kill small animals and knock unsuspecting humans
unconscious.
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mythago
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response 48 of 203:
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Nov 1 16:08 UTC 1991 |
re :44, where do you get those?
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md
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response 49 of 203:
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Nov 1 18:57 UTC 1991 |
My favorite classical music has changed over the years. When I was a
kid my father got me started on BEETHOVEN and BRAHMS, his two
favorites. They remain my favorites to this day.
In my teens I developed a taste for 20th century music, in particular
BARTOK and STRAVINSKY. I've cooled just a bit on Stravinsky, but I
still listen to a lot of Bartok.
An early favorite of mine was VAUGHAN WILLIAMS. I had the Adrian
Boult recordings of all of Vaughan Williams's symphonies, and lots of
other stuff as well, by the time I was in college. SIBELIUS was
another favorite. Nowadays my head tells me that these two are at
best "B" composers who had occasional flashes of greatness (the
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, Tapiola), but my heart tells me
that they're both still on my personal "A" list.
I also developed an interest in American music in my teens. AARON
COPLAND was my favorite for a long time. Now I prefer ELLIOTT CARTER
when I'm in the mood for that kind of sound, and SAMUEL BARBER when I
want something more traditional. I started to like WILLIAM SCHUMAN
until I realized how little variety there is in his music.
I love SHOSTAKOVICH's music. I used to be a little embarrassed about
this, as Shostakovich has always been regarded as somewhat of a
lowbrow. But not any more.
I love just about everything DEBUSSY ever wrote. His Pelleas et
Melisande is one OPERA I can listen to all the way through without
nodding off. Even the old "pops" pieces like La Mer and "Afternoon of
a Faun" still hold surprises for me every time I listen to them. I
love RAVEL's music, too. Daphnis and Chloe floors me.
I love J.S. BACH, but there's so much of him. Beethoven's comment
about him was right on the money: He should have been called "Ocean",
not "Brook".
There are some lamentable gaps in my taste. The biggest is MOZART.
I've never been able to work up much enthusiasm for his music, for
some reason. Another is MAHLER, who bores me to death. Another gap
is PROKOFIEV. I like his 3rd piano concerto and a few numbers from
his ballets, but his symphonies do nothing for me. CHARLES IVES's
popularity is a mystery to me. Also, with one exception (JOHN ADAMS's
amusing "Short Ride in a Fast Machine") I've never heard a MINIMALIST
piece I could stomach. VIVALDI is another composer whose stature
seems overestimated to me. Vivaldi was the LEROY ANDERSON of the
Baroque period, in my opinion. Also, I'm indifferent to most PRE-
BAROQUE music.
More recently acquired tastes are HAYDN, ELGAR, NIELSEN, WEBER,
SCHUMANN, CHOPIN, RACHMANINOV, BRITTEN and a host of others. Most
orthodox SERIALIST noodling leaves me cold, but I love some of ALBAN
BERG's music.
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