[ExI] for classical music lovers only

[William Flynn Wallace]

You  know, I have had this thought:  what if we heard the movie music
before we saw the movie?  After seeing the movie, we will have visual
images to go with most of the music, memory allowing.  ("I go to the
hills....."  Julie Andrews in an Alpine meadow)  The questions are:  can
the music stand alone?  Will your like or dislike of the scenes the music
accompanies influence your liking or disliking of the music?  I suppose a
test could be listening to old movie music whose movie you have not seen.
Or maybe someone in the group can tell me a movie they liked, and I can
listen to the score - or part of it, at least, should be on Youtube - an
invaluable resource.

I have seen practically nothing in the last 20 years or so, so
please recommend a score.  (thanks Stuart)

bill w

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 7:56 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Bill Wallace wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 3:36 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > I am at the point where I think I know just about every piece up until
> > about 1900 or maybe 1930 that I like.  So after that I am looking for
> > new music to buy.  I get the American Record Guide and buy CDs
> > based on reviews and have a success rate of maybe 10%.  The
> > others I give away.
> >
> > So, I am interested in finding out from other classical music lovers
> > who, since 1900, has become a favorite whose music I might like.  If
> > a composer is famous I very likely know all I need to know about
> > him or her.
>
> I would get the musical scores from the Star Wars movies performed by
> the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In so far as classical music can be
> considered a genre instead of a musical period ending in the 1800s,
> then John Williams is one of the best modern classical music
> composers. He is why the Star Wars movies are "space opera" instead of
> "space theater" or "space story".
>
> Stuart LaForge
>
>
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