October 13, 200817 yr The people who listen to Pachelbel's canon hours on end and enjoy it are probably the same people that listen to Fur Elise, the Turkish rondo, and a condensed version of Ode to Joy (because the actual movement is too "long") and NOTHING else in the classical music realm. Yet they claim to "love" classical music. I think you're being unfair. You forgot to mention the mislabeled, downloaded copies of the first movements of Beethoven's 5th and Mozart's 40th, the Blue Danube Waltz, the Ride of the Valkyries, a random excerpt from the Nutcracker suite (labeled "Nutcracker"), and the Lacrimosa from the Requiem Mass (labeled "Requiem").
October 13, 200817 yr I mean, I love Strauss, but the public just happened to pick the most bland one to latch onto.
October 15, 200817 yr Author I actually heard a nifty virtuoso transcription of the Blue Danube for two pianos that is much better than the actual waltz. Brahms wanted to be the composer of that waltz too!
October 17, 200817 yr Pretty self-explanatory. Are there any pieces that it seems everyone you know is raving about, but you can't stand. Let's see... Italian operas. Especially Verdi and Puccini's, can't stand them. Pachelbel's piece of... (yes, I play the cello). Anything by Mozart, except from...nah, no exceptions. Chopin's Polonaise...mercy! :sleeping:
October 17, 200817 yr Italian operas. Especially Verdi and Puccini's, can't stand them. ......... ......................... You...... you....... ......:angry: :sadtears:
October 18, 200817 yr Anything Mozart. Even the requiem. The only thing that I appreciate from that piece is the "Kyrie" double fugue.
October 18, 200817 yr I dont like most operas, but that is because most opera singers (men) sound like they got a pole shoved up their butt when they sing. I cant stand nasally tone!!!
October 18, 200817 yr I dont like most operas, but that is because most opera singers (men) sound like they got a pole shoved up their butt when they sing. I cant stand nasally tone!!! What?! It's the female singers that kill opera! Men are at least tolerable... generally.
October 18, 200817 yr Pachelbel's Canon (no, I don't play the Cello) and Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Just got sick and tired of playing these pieces over and over and over and over again for 4 years.
October 18, 200817 yr Come on guys, J. Strauss' waltzes are wonderful pieces of music. The Radetzky March of his father is so extremly charming that we are moved by this music before we can even think of its depth. Not everything must be as complex and challenging as a Mahler symphony. I can love both a Strauss Polka (preferably conducted by C. Kleiber) AND a Mahler symphony AND a Tchaikovsky #5, being blamed for its seeming kitsch which nothing else but the composer's inscrutable world of though - and I'm proud of it.
October 18, 200817 yr ok, music everyone else seems to love and that gets on my nerves? Mahler symphonies. yet there are some 19thC symphonies that are in my favorites... just not Mahler's. And I love opera.. but not Rossini. Why, oh why, does the Opera de Montr
October 18, 200817 yr I thought you were going to avoid this thread Qc. You were ranting about ia few days ago. Now about mahler..you're in good company, it seems that JT and I are the only lovers of Mahler on the forum. Or atleast..the only ones open about it.
October 18, 200817 yr Ramone, you misunderstand.. again. Liking or disliking things is NOT what I was going on about. Everyone is perfectly permitted to have their own likes and dislikes. My issue is with people who are close-minded about the things they dislike, and lump everything together into one bag. People who lump all contemporary music into a single category - "atonal music", for example. Or who hate "all opera". Now, I'm NOT close-minded about Mahler. I've listened to a lot of Mahler (probably more than you) and studied and analysed it (again, probably MUCH more than you). So you can't say I'm close-minded about it. It just doesn't speak to me. It bores me. Good for you if you enjoy it. Cheers. But don't try and make it sound like people who DON'T enjoy Mahler are somehow deficient for feeling the way they do.
October 18, 200817 yr I thought you were going to avoid this thread Qc. You were ranting about ia few days ago.Now about mahler..you're in good company, it seems that JT and I are the only lovers of Mahler on the forum. Or atleast..the only ones open about it. I guess i'll come out of the closet, I love Mahler too.
October 18, 200817 yr What, exactly, is the problem with hating all opera? It's closed minded, for once. I bet you haven't heard all opera.
October 19, 200817 yr It's closed minded, for once. I bet you haven't heard all opera. Dear God, that's awful logic.
October 19, 200817 yr Dear God, that's awful logic. no, actually, it's a very good attitude to have. It's not a question of "logic". If you start off with "I hate all opera" then you are not open to changing that attitude. When I was rather young, I used to dislike opera, but I hadn't heard enough of it to really make an informed judgment. I thought what I disliked was the "type of voice" (a VERY common excuse used by opera-bashers), but then I heard an opera that was MUSICALLY interesting to me, and the voices ended up making sense to me. I now love opera, and plan on writing one when it becomes a more financially feasible task.
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