[ExI] for classical music lovers only

[William Flynn Wallace]

Dave, I think recommended Medtner.  Thanks.  I know him.  Rachmaninoff's
favorite composer who he thought was greater than himself (nice sentiment,
but wrong)  bill w

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 1:06 PM William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Adrian -I listened. Classical??  You listen to this sort of thing on a
> daily basis?  Have you ever been in therapy? This is music that is
> primarily about the words.  The music was probably made up when the band
> got together to put words to music, much like commercials and Nashville
> country music.  My hearing deficit does not permit me, usually, to even
> understand the words, regardless of volume.  So it's like opera music sung
> in Italian:  I really don't care what is being said.  It's mostly soap
> opera anyway.  The joy is in the sound of the voice and accompanying music
> -using the voice as just another instrument which could even be singing
> lalalalala.  bill w
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 11:56 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog was a notable production within that
>> timespan, that conveyed a lot but not all of its plot through its songs.
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp_hlaXcniY&list=PL78B0B3p_qZQPO8VVNTRf6wSDP9ebIoTQ
>> has the playlist (plus two non-song entries, which you can ignore for this
>> exercise).
>>
>> The second LEGO Movie might be interesting to do this exercise with too.
>> Soundtrack at
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUEbWo1uIrg&list=PL5uTL9oHnU9gbfDveKd1kVKcXwydBb-1i
>> .
>>
>> Granted, neither of these is particularly "old", but you limited it to
>> the past 20 years.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 9:42 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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