<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 1:06 PM William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 11:56 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp_hlaXcniY&list=PL78B0B3p_qZQPO8VVNTRf6wSDP9ebIoTQ" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp_hlaXcniY&list=PL78B0B3p_qZQPO8VVNTRf6wSDP9ebIoTQ</a> has the playlist (plus two non-song entries, which you can ignore for this exercise).<div><br></div><div>The second LEGO Movie might be interesting to do this exercise with too. Soundtrack at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUEbWo1uIrg&list=PL5uTL9oHnU9gbfDveKd1kVKcXwydBb-1i" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUEbWo1uIrg&list=PL5uTL9oHnU9gbfDveKd1kVKcXwydBb-1i</a> .</div><div><br></div><div>Granted, neither of these is particularly "old", but you limited it to the past 20 years.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 9:42 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I have seen practically nothing in the last 20 years or so, so please recommend a score. (thanks Stuart)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 7:56 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Bill Wallace wrote:<br>
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 3:36 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br>
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> I am at the point where I think I know just about every piece up until<br>
> about 1900 or maybe 1930 that I like. So after that I am looking for<br>
> new music to buy. I get the American Record Guide and buy CDs<br>
> based on reviews and have a success rate of maybe 10%. The<br>
> others I give away.<br>
><br>
> So, I am interested in finding out from other classical music lovers<br>
> who, since 1900, has become a favorite whose music I might like. If<br>
> a composer is famous I very likely know all I need to know about<br>
> him or her.<br>
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I would get the musical scores from the Star Wars movies performed by <br>
the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In so far as classical music can be <br>
considered a genre instead of a musical period ending in the 1800s, <br>
then John Williams is one of the best modern classical music <br>
composers. He is why the Star Wars movies are "space opera" instead of <br>
"space theater" or "space story".<br>
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Stuart LaForge<br>
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