Anybody Like Classical Music?

[BohemianArtist]

I'm especially keen on responses from the ladies, but guys are welcome to post too. What are your favourites? Ever make love to a Beethoven symphony, or perhaps Stravinsky's Rite of Spring? Maybe you like a little Chopin to set a romantic mood before doing the deed. Many people fear that classical music is dying. Do you agree? Do you care? Perhaps you find classical music inherently un-sexy. if so, why?

Did you do anything creative with that flute you played in high school?

 

[Cycleguy007]

Yes... I love the classics! Beethoven, Mozart, Debussy, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Bach... etc. Not a big fan of Stravinsky though, he was a little dissonant for my taste.

The first time Mrs. CG and I "did it" (almost 21 years ago now) was to Dvorak's Symphony no 9 "From The New World". I have a rather extensive collection actually...

I played Trombone in high School and NO, I never did anything "creative" with it! LOL!

 

[Yoga Face]

Mozart's Night and Water music and Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and Strauss's Waltzes


Where are the great composers of today?

So few people had access to classical training in the past yet those periods produced the great composers, why?

I suspect todays musical geniuses do jazz and rock

IE Zappa, McCartney, Fripp, McLaughlin, Gilmour, Parker and, of course, Elvis

 

[MissCroft]

I love classical! Beethoven, J.S. Bach, Vivaldi. I like listening to Galaxie Pop Classics or Galaxie Baroque on my t.v. - listening to it right now.

Did you do anything creative with that flute you played in high school?

I played clarinet but haven't touched one in years. I was pretty good - I keep thinking I shoudl buy one and get back into it. Maybe that'll be my new year's resolution.

 

[Brill]

I'd consider this classical, but that seems to be too broad a term. Written and conducted in 1964.

 

[bullitt]

i really enjoy the soundtrack to 'A CLOCKWORK ORANGE', great movie too.

 

[Don Draper]

Well, in keeping with Maestro Morricone:

 

[Don Draper]

Although, Puccini is always my First Love.

Always.

 

[Brill]

A great Morricone theme is for The Untouchables.

 

[blank_dave]

I played Trombone in high School

I'm sure you worked the slide with a great deal of enthuiasm.

I enjoy classical music, but I don't go out of my way to listen to it. As I've said before, I prefer my music harder, angerier and pounding, so metal, hard rock and some alternative.

But I do have Vivaldi's Guitar Concertos tucked away somewhere, which I do greatly enjoy, though it isn't on my TDL for learning guitar.

 

[Cycleguy007]

I'm sure you worked the slide with a great deal of enthuiasm.

It was great practice!

It always cracked me up in those American Pie movies when they said "This one time, at band camp..." Not that I ever went to band camp, but I did play in the orchestra as well as the jazz band and we did go on a number of trips every year! I gotta tell you there were some great parties and some good times on those trips.

In grade 12 we went to Ottawa and stayed at a hotel downtown so myself and one of the sax players arranged to be room mates while our GF's at the time (who were also in the band) also planned to be room-mates... of course we swapped keys AFTER check in so that we were each in a room with our GF! To this day, I don't think any one else knew that we did that!

Good Times!!!

 

[Kyra.Graves]

I'm primarily an opera fan however when I find myself listening to music they are typically from the romantic period; Strauss, Brahms, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin, Mendelssohn, etc.
I don't know enough about the different periods of classical to categorize or differentiate, rather it's just a pattern I've observed that my own tastes tend towards the romantic era composers over the Baroque.

 

[Brill]

The best introduction to opera is through cartoons, Bugs Bunny in The Rabbit Of Seville or Elmer Fudd singing Kill da Wabbit to to the tune of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries".
Classical music isn't always soothing, it can be the angriest music sometimes.

 

[diehard]

Antonin Dvorák

 

[Cycleguy007]

Antonin Dvorák

Yes... that's what I said... his symphony # 9... Commonly referred to as The New World Symphony. Here's part 2... (of 4...)

One of my favourite pcs of classical music...

 

[Don Draper]

I'm primarily an opera fan. I've observed that my own tastes tend towards the romantic era composers over the Baroque.

You want Romantic, Hun? I'll give you Romantic:

Meet my friends: Mimi & Rodolfo!

 

[BohemianArtist]

Where are the great composers of today?

So few people had access to classical training in the past yet those periods produced the great composers, why?

I suspect todays musical geniuses do jazz and rock

IE Zappa, McCartney, Fripp, McLaughlin, Gilmour, Parker and, of course, Elvis

Actually there are lots of people still writing music in the classical tradition but none of them are household names - not in Canada anyway. Philip Glass maybe. Some time in the early 20th century the music started to get weird, people started booing and throwing things, and then they just stayed away. So orchestras kept playing Mozart and Beethoven and classical music became a "museum" art form. Don't get me started...

 

[BohemianArtist]

I've always wanted to have sex with this playing in the background:

 

[BohemianArtist]

The best introduction to opera is through cartoons, Bugs Bunny in The Rabbit Of Seville or Elmer Fudd singing Kill da Wabbit to to the tune of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries".
Classical music isn't always soothing, it can be the angriest music sometimes.

I wonder how many people are introduced to opera through this remarkable piece of cinema:

All this because "Charlie doesn't surf!"

 

[Kyra.Graves]

You want Romantic, Hun? I'll give you Romantic:


Meet my friends: Mimi & Rodolfo!

I like the romantic era, but it was far from romantic period in time and I'm not an overly romantic person.

La Boheme is a wonderful opera but personal taste I will take Verdi's La Traviata instead.