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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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I don't want to throw off the Vickers thread, so I'll start a new one. Glad to hear that I am not alone in my inability thus far to appreciate Britten. Everything I have heard thus far (and I admit it is not a profound number of works) has left me not wanting to explore further. I have yet to explore two of the works considered the greatest - Peter Grimes and the War Requiem, and I have acquired, cheaply, copies of the LPs conducted by the composer....but things like the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, the Simple Symphony, pieces of Midsummer Night's Dream and Billy Budd - just haven't floated my boat. There is so much music to explore and enjoy- why continue to explore paths that are dark for you?
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Topic - Britten - TGR 15:22:01 07/14/15 (62)
- If no one mentioned it, his Ceremony of Carols on Argo is worth seeking out! - jdaniel@jps.net 21:29:31 07/26/15 (0)
- RE: Britten - Bob Neill 09:34:44 07/25/15 (0)
- Britten: / Pieter Wispelwey - Jay Buridan 13:48:19 07/17/15 (3)
- RE: Britten: / Pieter Wispelwey - Ivan303 16:16:57 07/18/15 (0)
- RE: Britten: / Pieter Wispelwey - Chris from Lafayette 00:31:49 07/18/15 (1)
- Right you are - Jay Buridan 17:47:14 07/19/15 (0)
- RE: Britten - Kas 04:25:58 07/17/15 (0)
- RE: Britten - Todd Krieger 21:34:20 07/15/15 (0)
- RE: Britten - pbarach 17:05:40 07/15/15 (0)
- RE: Britten - garrod 08:36:15 07/15/15 (1)
- Interesting about the VC: after all these years, I simply can't lock-on to one measure of it. - jdaniel@jps.net 21:33:00 07/26/15 (0)
- RE: Britten - Logan 21:00:20 07/14/15 (2)
- Your comments goes to show that we all have our musical blanks - TGR 07:41:28 07/15/15 (0)
- Great story, thanks. nt - rbolaw 06:09:49 07/15/15 (0)
- Actually, the Cello Sonatas are played so gorgeously by Rosty, they might work for you - jdaniel@jps.net 19:45:29 07/14/15 (0)
- "Billy Budd" is the greatest Fascist Opera ever written. - John Marks 16:03:26 07/14/15 (46)
- Really? A "Facist" opera popular in communist Russia? - Rick W 16:49:54 07/14/15 (9)
- Fascist in the sense of the origin of the word--the fasces symbol--not Mussolini - John Marks 08:21:19 07/15/15 (5)
- RE: Fascist in the sense . . . Steady on, there, JM - goldenthal 21:56:34 07/31/15 (0)
- Frankly, John, in view of Rick's post above. . . - Chris from Lafayette 09:33:32 07/15/15 (3)
- Let's put that on hold--but BB is still a fascist work of art, whether novella or opera--Right or Wrong? - John Marks 09:55:32 07/15/15 (2)
- RE: Let's put that on hold--Wrong, Wrong, Wrong . . . - goldenthal 22:13:12 07/31/15 (0)
- RE: BB is still a fascist work of art? - genungo 11:45:10 07/15/15 (0)
- RE: Really? - genungo 17:48:00 07/14/15 (1)
- Hmm. . . not sure I'd trust those commie sales figures! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 17:49:35 07/14/15 (0)
- Good catch, Rick! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 16:58:34 07/14/15 (0)
- Hmm. - TGR 16:27:45 07/14/15 (0)
- Heard Aztec Two-Step in person - rbolaw 16:22:55 07/14/15 (33)
- More Brits - Brooklyn 18:08:22 07/16/15 (0)
- RE: Heard Aztec Two-Step in person - learsfool 19:30:40 07/14/15 (15)
- Britten - Pshaw! - Chris from Lafayette 09:28:22 07/15/15 (13)
- RE: Britten - Pshaw! -- Britten and Stravinsky . . . - goldenthal 22:21:37 07/31/15 (2)
- RE: Britten - Pshaw! -- Britten and Stravinsky . . . - P.C. 18:46:19 08/01/15 (1)
- RE: Britten - Pshaw! -- Britten and Stravinsky . . . - goldenthal 15:34:56 08/17/15 (0)
- I'll take your list too - and add Bax... - krisjan 08:19:04 07/17/15 (1)
- I don't know those string quartet works - Chris from Lafayette 11:44:07 07/17/15 (0)
- Britten - Shaw! - rbolaw 14:32:47 07/15/15 (7)
- Ever hear the story about Moszkowski. . . - Chris from Lafayette 17:02:50 07/15/15 (6)
- :-) nt - rbolaw 17:07:37 07/15/15 (5)
- Still the greatest ever performance of "Britten". . . - Chris from Lafayette 17:26:56 07/15/15 (4)
- Believe it or not, Dudley Moore and Arturo Delmoni once played together - John Marks 09:02:55 07/16/15 (2)
- That's easy to believe - rbolaw 09:51:38 07/16/15 (0)
- "There were giants in the earth in those days" - Chris from Lafayette 09:40:00 07/16/15 (0)
- You bet I've seen it. - rbolaw 19:20:51 07/15/15 (0)
- RE: Heard Aztec Two-Step in person - rbolaw 06:08:45 07/15/15 (0)
- Is this guy German? - Ivan303 17:41:45 07/14/15 (6)
- RE: Is this guy German? - PAR 20:48:52 07/14/15 (5)
- Hmmmm, no response... - PAR 16:37:52 07/15/15 (4)
- i thought I did.... - Ivan303 20:48:31 07/16/15 (0)
- I didn't respond because I didn't recognize him. . . - Chris from Lafayette 17:05:14 07/15/15 (2)
- Edward German. - rbolaw 17:12:17 07/15/15 (1)
- D'oh! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 17:30:21 07/15/15 (0)
- Britten better than Vaughan Williams??? Whoa! You are SICK, man! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 16:55:51 07/14/15 (4)
- Heck I can think of a LOT of Brits I'd put on the list ahead of Britten... - Ivan303 18:00:16 07/14/15 (2)
- LOL! I had to search a while before I found who that was! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 18:20:33 07/14/15 (0)
- I can think of none, though I like Bax too. - rbolaw 18:18:57 07/14/15 (0)
- But i have good doctors. ;-) nt - rbolaw 17:34:28 07/14/15 (0)
- RE: British composers list - genungo 16:51:04 07/14/15 (3)
- No. - rbolaw 17:33:53 07/14/15 (2)
- I always had the feeling that both the Elgar Concertos. . . - Chris from Lafayette 17:46:40 07/14/15 (1)
- RE: I always had the feeling that both the Elgar Concertos. . . - rbolaw 18:36:10 07/14/15 (0)
- Wow - I never heard that "Billy Budd" had been so popular in Soviet Russia - Chris from Lafayette 16:22:13 07/14/15 (0)
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