| Pages in topic: < [1 2 3 4 5 6] > | Off topic: Classical music I should listen to before I die :-D Thread poster: Yolanda Bello Olvera
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Cetacea 
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| Longevity indeed... | Apr 1, 2010 |
Heinrich Pesch wrote:
John Cage: ORGAN²/ASLSP (as slow as possible)
Enjoy!
Since the performance of John Cage's piece is scheduled to last 639 years, listening to the whole thing might prove a little difficult...
| | | | Oliver Walter
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| My current three suggestions | Apr 2, 2010 |
When I hear these I think "absolutely splendid music, telling a story about life, including its happy times and its sad times".
Dvorak's "American" string quartet, Op. 96
Dvorak's cello concerto
Elgar's cello concerto
Sometimes I consider these concertos to be greater than the "great" violin concertos (Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn) even though I play the violin myself. Having played the "Americ... See more When I hear these I think "absolutely splendid music, telling a story about life, including its happy times and its sad times".
Dvorak's "American" string quartet, Op. 96
Dvorak's cello concerto
Elgar's cello concerto
Sometimes I consider these concertos to be greater than the "great" violin concertos (Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn) even though I play the violin myself. Having played the "American" quartet myself, I consider it to be excellent to the musician also (which doesn't mean easy), not only the listener.
I think the best "classical" music all represents a story or a journey, even if the details of the meanings are not explicable in verbal language.
Oliver
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| | | | | Have Translators got a musical ear | Apr 2, 2010 |
I think translators have a more musical ear than others, just thinking of how many colleagues I know sing in a choir.... And I am seriously considering to start the next Thread on Which Books to read before I die. Though watching other peoples LinkedIn-booklists helps a lot. Susanne
| | | | Wolf Kux
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Try to find André Rieu's orchestra !
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| | Adrian Grant
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Adrian Grant wrote:
How was her performance?
You mean you'd like a report from
"The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveller returns"?
| | | | | Once I finish translating next week... | Apr 2, 2010 |
I will have to take time to read and find out about so much music.
Wonderful suggestions!
Many of them I know, many I don't.
So I need to take time to find the music and decide what to add to my ipod.
Decisions, decisions....
Thanks for taking the time to reply!
Who is starting the "what books should I read before I die" thread?
Have a nice Easter!
Y
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Brian Young
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| too late for reading | Apr 2, 2010 |
Does anyone actually believe that they will be reading any books after they die? Would it even make any sense?
How about just some reading suggestions, plain and simple. That list will anyhow be too long to ever get through.
My main problem is not just what to read while I still have time, but what to read again, for a second or third time, or even more. It can be very troubling. I try to read several of Dylan Thomas' short pieces at least once a year. I read Neruda's biography ever... See more Does anyone actually believe that they will be reading any books after they die? Would it even make any sense?
How about just some reading suggestions, plain and simple. That list will anyhow be too long to ever get through.
My main problem is not just what to read while I still have time, but what to read again, for a second or third time, or even more. It can be very troubling. I try to read several of Dylan Thomas' short pieces at least once a year. I read Neruda's biography every few years. I am always afraid that one time will be the last, and in fact that is unavoidable. So I am always in somewhat of a frenzy. And the all that new stuff, it's driving me crazy! No matter how we dig and scratch, no matter how late we stay up, we can never do more than scratch the surface. Still, a reading list that you can never get through isn't the worst thing that can happen.
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| | | | apk12
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| chewing about definitions | Apr 2, 2010 |
ok let´s talk about classical music, what´s part of this, what´s not.
so, my sentence to this topic here would be: "if you ask me, before I die, I want to be able at least to click one single link again. see: a grand piano... someone is able to sing something... I want to be able to play stupid before I die and will insist on the statement that classical music is not only "mignon", BBM (bach beethoven mozart), vivaldi or stravinsky but instead a question of individual definition. befor... See more ok let´s talk about classical music, what´s part of this, what´s not.
so, my sentence to this topic here would be: "if you ask me, before I die, I want to be able at least to click one single link again. see: a grand piano... someone is able to sing something... I want to be able to play stupid before I die and will insist on the statement that classical music is not only "mignon", BBM (bach beethoven mozart), vivaldi or stravinsky but instead a question of individual definition. before I die, I want to click a link to a classical music to someone who can sing and play a grand piano at the same time. and I have the feeling this link will be this here: http://shortlinks.de/k040 "
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| | | | | Reading? Not according to my book. | Apr 3, 2010 |
Brian Young wrote:
Does anyone actually believe that they will be reading any books after they die? Would it even make any sense? How about just some reading suggestions, plain and simple.
What I think we'll be doing after we die is explained in my book, "Engineers of Fate".
You may read an abridged version of its first quarter at http://www.lamensdorf.com.br/text_14.html
As you'll see, we won't have time for reading.
| | | | Brian Young
United States
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"We" will no longer exist after we die, so we won't be doing anything. If people want to believe in ghost, goblins, or other forms of magic or hokus pokus, then that is fine with me. I'm more interested in that list of books and music that we might at least take a shot at, while we are still around to shoot.
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apk12
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| Reading? What for...? | Apr 3, 2010 |
José Henrique Lamensdorf wrote: ... What I think we'll be doing after we die is explained in my book, "Engineers of Fate". You may read an abridged version of its first quarter at http://www.lamensdorf.com.br/text_14.html ...
quote2 "ENGINEERS OF FATE - by J. H. Lamensdorf - ... It would be interesting to analyze a reader’s motivation when they decide to read a book. The individual certainly expects to get something out of it: amusement, a challenge for their mind, cultural enrichment, and ..."
and many other things, yes. but see, j.h., some of them do it for very surface-based purposes, they do it only for styling and design reasons, really. 
it takes a quite a while and quite a couple of meters of books until you get such pretty glasses like
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| | | | Suzan Hamer
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| And then there's always art we should see before we "die" . . . | Apr 3, 2010 |
and that reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: "To fear death, gentlemen, is nothing other than to think oneself wise
when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know. No man knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest of blessings for a human being; and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that it is the greatest of evils." (Socrates, c. 469-399 BC)
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It's too late to add this to t... See more and that reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: "To fear death, gentlemen, is nothing other than to think oneself wise
when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know. No man knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest of blessings for a human being; and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that it is the greatest of evils." (Socrates, c. 469-399 BC)
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It's too late to add this to the list on my previous comment, so I'll mention it here:
Bruch's First Violin Concerto in G minor, op.26, second movement, here performed by Itzhak Perlman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOw8PDbYWow&feature=related
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| | | | Brian Young
United States
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Thanks Suzan
Yes, and not just "art", but sunrises, and pretty girls, and storms and lightening and....
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