Has there been a piece that has changed your life?

Amazingly, I haven't commented on this thread yet.

It's cliché, but: Le sacre du Printemps, then The Planets in close succession. Both were mind-opening for me.

Originally Posted by Voce

What is with all these Mahler lovers?! I mean, why does his music get so much recognition when it's not even that good?

Definitely your opinion, not fact..

Originally Posted by Voce

What is with all these Mahler lovers?! I mean, why does his music get so much recognition when it's not even that good?

I am not a mahler lover, but his music is astounding.

Eric Whitacre is nice, but not even in the running frankly.

Shostakovich Symphony #5

I played it my senior year in high school with the All-State Orchestra, and then again with my college this past February. It's one of the darkest pieces of music I know and yet I still find it to be the most inspiring.

Originally Posted by rautavaara

I am not a mahler lover, but his music is astounding.

Eric Whitacre is nice, but not even in the running frankly.

I second this post!

Originally Posted by Justin Tokke

What is with all these Eric Whitacre lovers?! I mean, why does his music get so much recognition when it's not even that good?

Go ahead and explain your opinion on this one. I mean a claim like that deserves to be backed up

The CONCEPT of Pink Floyd's "Division Bell" album changed my life; it got me out of eating disorder-habits as one change. It just change my overall view on things..everything.

If you feel like learning more about it:
The Division Bell Concept

Other than that? Pink Floyd means a lot to me...I can easily say that the music has kept me alive. Not exaggerating- think what you want. (And no I don't mean "The Wall" or even "Dark Side of the Moon" but everything, in the literal meaning of the word. I love everything they did.
I like "The Final Cut" less because that's pretty much just a solo album by Roger Waters with a 'guest appearance' by David Gilmour on the song "Not Now John".) Etc.

I won't say that a piece of music in the classical genre has changed my life as I actually do not know a lot. I listen to what I've heard and liked.

Predictable, but....

Janie Runaway was a stlye of music I had never experienced before. I probably wouldn't be a musician/composer if it weren't for this piece.
Not to mention I totally hated the group before I heard this song. They have 8 or 9 tunes on the radio, but they all sounded so......old. No offense. This is Young Composers after all....

~Kal

Definitely The Rite of Spring; The Bartók Piano Sonata (1926) before that, the Benny Goodman Quartet's "Avalon" before that, Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain before any of those, Ives' "Three Places in New England" a little after all of these; certainly by the time I was 14.

I didn't really develop a taste for rock until I was in high school, save The Beatles and The Monkees. I discoverd the Velvet Underground and Zappa right before the punk explosion, and I was REALLY interested in that. I remember a schoolmate asking me, "You never got into Jimmy Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, right?" No - those artists I still haven't, although I know what they did and respect it otherwise.

Uncle Dave