Anybody Like Classical Music?

[Zoot Allures]

Opera singer analysis of Kurt Cobain voice

I think she has nailed it

Not a great voice but a great gritty voice for grunge and she explains how hard it is for singers to dwell in the emotions of their personal songs they play over and over

She identifies with this as an opera singer as the songs they sing are of deep pain

It killed Cobain

she really knows how to appreciate a song and coming from an opera singer she validates the greatness of Cobain and grunge in general

give it a listen

 

[Zoot Allures]

Why waste time on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B minor mass by Bach?

At the 3:06 mark what giant string instrument is that guy playing?

 

[Insidious Von]

Why waste time on psychotherapy when you can listen to the b minor mass?

Bach drink's the world's milkshake, there are contenders. Mozart's symphony that doesn't make any sense.....

 

[Zoot Allures]

A full performance of the ring cycle, of which this piece is part, takes place over four nights at the opera, with a total playing time of about 15 hours

I agree with Mark Twain, I cannot imagine sitting through it

The story of Die Walküre is based on the Norse mythology told in the Völsunga saga and the Poetic Edda. In this version, the Volsung twins Sieglinde and Siegmund, separated in childhood, meet and fall in love. This union angers the gods, who demand that Siegmund must die. Sieglinde and the couple's unborn child are saved by the defiant actions of Wotan's daughter, the title character, Valkyrie Brünnhilde, who as a result faces the gods' retribution.

 

[billie69]

Ravels Bolero - According to the movie “10!” it’s the most “erotic” piece of music.

 

[Zoot Allures]

Ravels Bolero - According to the movie “10!” it’s the most “erotic” piece of music.

Maya Plisetskaya is a Russian legend

The dancers look like they are riding a horse LOL. I doubt that was Ravels intent but I totally love this dance

 

[Insidious Von]

So true, Wagner has excruciatingly boring half hours, try getting through Act 2 of Die Walkure without snoring. He also has moments that are scalp tingling thrilling.

Welsh stud Bryn Terfel as Wotan.

 

[Mandala]

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a symphonic poem by the French composer Paul Dukas, completed in 1897.the piece was based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1797 poem named "Der Zauberlehrling". By far the most performed and recorded of Dukas' works, its notable appearance in the Walt Disney 1940 animated film Fantasia

The cartoon is better than the music considering this was done in 1940. Cartoonists at Disney are the best in the world. And this is the mouse's best work

 

[Insidious Von]

Having spent time around opera singers, they are in an constant state of terror that their voice will break. That is why some of them get so fat. Canadian tenor Ben Heppner retired in 2016, he wasn't going to risk the loss of timbre. Can't blame him, he's older than I am. He currently has a show about singing in CBC Radio 2.

Where's danmand?

 

[Insidious Von]

Wagner: This Strange Land sung by Ben Heppner in Munich.

 

[tml]

Does anyone recognize the music on this tv ad? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Zoot Allures]

Does anyone recognize the music on this tv ad? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Might be a tango. There might be an app that does it

 

[Insidious Von]

Might be a tango

Obviously Goggle Search doesn't know, it gave me this:

 

[Zoot Allures]

Obviously Goggle Search doesn't know, it gave me this:

How do you google search a song?

 

[Insidious Von]

How do you google search a song?

Type in Song: and a lyric from it. I typed too many Polish singers and viola GS got it right.

 

[oil&gas]

The Scrolls of Skelos -- Conan the Destroyer -- Basil Poledouris

 

[tml]

Might be a tango. There might be an app that does it

Thanks. I tried the Shazam app with no success.

 

[tml]

Obviously Goggle Search doesn't know, it gave me this:

As the late, great Bob Uecker said "juuuuuuuuust missed it".

 

[Insidious Von]

Took in Die Walkure at the 4 Season when it first opened. The acoustics were outstanding. During Act 2 I had to take a wicked piss, there was still another half hour of drudgery to go. I looked toward the isle, patrons had their heads tilted back with their mouths ajar some had droll leaking down their cheeks...I wasn't going anywhere.

The best part of Act 2 is the prelude before the monotony. From La Scala in Milano.

 

[Insidious Von]

Gustav Mahler is the George Costanza of classical music. His symphonies are too long and highly neurotic, with moments of sheer melodrama. I call his 7th, the Road to Nowhere. Whenever Dave Hurwitz plays 20th Century Russian music, his cats )Finster and Mildred) run away. Soviet Realism at it's finest: The Brown Log Symphony.