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For people who love opera, ballet, and classical music. A place to relax and enjoy the soothing sound of the masters. (Incept date, 0401.10)
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music
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Hindemith, Mathias Grunewald, the Nazis, &c.
Started by James M. Martin Jul 4, 2012. 0 Replies 0 Likes
When I was a bachelor at a…Continue
Virtual Choir 3.0 - Water Night
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Tony Carroll Apr 2, 2012. 1 Reply 1 Like
Words may not suffice here. The average choir may be ... what? Thirty, maybe 50 for a medium ensemble, and a large orchestra chorus might go one or two hundred. Worthy of note, Eric Whitacre's…Continue
Tags: Water Night, Virtual Choir, Eric Whitacre
For Christopher...
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Loren Miller Dec 16, 2011. 2 Replies 1 Like
I sometimes like to think I have a way with words here and there. Today, having learned of the death of Christopher Hitchens, I find the words coming in fits and starts, but any attempt at giving…Continue
Is Music Dangerous?
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Loren Miller Aug 10, 2011. 3 Replies 1 Like
It was a few years ago when I attended a Cleveland Orchestra concert which included Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony. Up to that time, I had been aware of his more popular works, such as his…Continue
Tags: Shostakovich Symphony No. 4, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Stalin, Shostakovich
Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir - Lux Aurumque
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Loren Miller Apr 5, 2011. 3 Replies 0 Likes
When is a choir not a choir ... yet still a choir?When is an ensemble not assembled, yet is assembled?Ask Eric Whitacre. Some time back, he was sent a link on YouTube of a woman, singing a single…Continue
Tags: YouTube, Lux Aurumque, Virtual Choir, Eric Whitacre
Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 2.0 - *** UPDATED ***
Started by Loren Miller Apr 5, 2011. 0 Replies 0 Likes
On 7 April, 2011, Eric Whitacre will release his latest Virtual Choir project, with the performance of his work, "Sleep." This project involved the participation of no less than 2,051 voices from 58…Continue
Tags: YouTube, Sleep, Virtual Choir, Eric Whitacre
The Playlist Vault of Classical Masters on A|N
Started by Roy The Infidel. Last reply by Roy The Infidel Sep 22, 2010. 9 Replies 0 Likes
Archive of featured playlists on Classical Masters.Continue
The OTHER Side of Eric Whitacre
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Loren Miller Sep 10, 2010. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Certainly, there is "Water Night," "Sleep," and the powerful "When David Heard." To this day I shed tears listening to some of this stuff.And then ... there's Eric's OTHER side ... the side which…Continue
Conductors, Too
Started by James M. Martin. Last reply by Steve Snyder Jun 19, 2010. 16 Replies 0 Likes
I hope this group will welcome from time to time discussions of conductors, as in some circles they are almost the auteurs of the work, usually those who get the rosettes in the Penguin Guide. But…Continue
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Loren Miller Jun 5, 2010. 5 Replies 0 Likes
As controversial as it is powerful, Dmitri Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony was written in the wake of the searing criticism of his opera, "Lady MacBeth of Mtensk." This criticism had reduced…Continue
Tags: Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk, Soviet, Shostakovich, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Comment by Steve Snyder on September 19, 2010 at 3:52pm -
Overrated composers? Anything pre-25 by Mozart falls into that category, right? BIG hand grenade back at Jaume.
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Comment by James M. Martin on September 19, 2010 at 1:42pm -
Wasn't Delius an atheist? I seem to recall that he was. The movie by Ken Russell featuring the ballet dancer, Christopher Gable as Fenby, "Song of Summer," implies as much. It's a good film, done for BBC, concentrating on the two men's relationship.
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Comment by Richard Goscicki on September 19, 2010 at 10:36am -
Good one, Roy. I think there's another very conspicuous composer, but I can't remember who it was.
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Comment by Roy The Infidel on September 18, 2010 at 8:04pm -
Janáček was an infidel in his adult life tho he was schooled in a monastery as a young boy.
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Comment by Richard Goscicki on September 18, 2010 at 10:19am
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I think Verdi was an unbeliever, although he did write the Requiem and La Fuerza del Destino. But he did write Aida and that doesn't mean he believed in Isis.
He did live in sin with Guisepinna Straponi and got his windows broken for it.
Any others, definitely not Franz Liszt who became a cleric in later years.
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Comment by Roy The Infidel on September 17, 2010 at 11:14pm
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Ha!
Can you tell who were professed infidels?
By the way, any suggestions for RSS feeds we can add to our group?
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Comment by Richard Goscicki on September 15, 2010 at 9:52pm
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How the heck did I miss Verdi. I even watched a four-part bio on video. I've been a operaphile my whole life and saw this portrait a thousand times.
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Comment by Roy The Infidel on September 15, 2010 at 12:40pm
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4th row: Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich
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5th row: Mahler, Prokofiev, Strauss, Ravel
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Comment by Loren Miller on September 15, 2010 at 11:57am -
Actually, I should have said, "In the order I recognize them," as there are a lot I DON'T recognize.
While I think about it ... 2nd to last row, far left ... Rachmaninoff?
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Comment by Roy The Infidel on September 15, 2010 at 11:49am
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@ Richard & Loren:
1st row: Beethoven, Debussy, Verdi, Puccini
2nd row: Janáček, Mozart, Brahms, Vivaldi
3rd row: Bach, Haydn, Stravinsky, Chopin
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