April 27, 200718 yr I feel temped to post in this thread for the third time. .... Grieg, Dvorak, Holst, Borodin. Yup.
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May 2, 200718 yr Brahms, or possibly Bach, or Rachmaninoff, this really isn't fair, can I have twenty?
May 2, 200718 yr Well, I have no favorite composer.... though my favorite composer of Shostakovitch music is Shostakovitch. My favorite Stravinsky music composer is Stravinsky. For Verdi's music, my favorite composer is Verdi. Beethoven is the best Beethoven music composer....and so forth :shifty:.
May 3, 200718 yr One name that stands out to me is John Cheetham...his sonata for tuba and piano is simply awesome.
May 3, 200718 yr I simply can't choose one. Ravel, Brahms, Stravinsky, and Gershwin all stand out in my mind and heart.
May 3, 200718 yr I love the sequence earlier on of: Frank Zappa Mozart (although i do like both...Zappa more though)
May 4, 200718 yr Here are some of my favs .. though I'm sure you heard of none of them. Wolgang Beethoven Yohan Handel Felix Brahms Fredrich Mendelssohn
May 4, 200718 yr I'm particularly fond of Leonard Bernstein Aaron Copland Samuel Barber (come on, who can honestly say he's not on their list?) Howard Hanson (despite some nasty things I've read about his personal life) Giacomo Puccini Jan Sibelius to name a few, only. it's so hard to select a "few"... there are just too many incredible geniuses out there.
May 5, 200718 yr I do enjoy a bit of Vivaldi sometimes, it's nice background music, when I don't want to be too taxed when listening :P
May 5, 200718 yr Brahms Beethoven Mahler Mozart (mainly his operas, alot of his instrumental music I can't stand) Schoenberg Berg Stravinsky
May 6, 200718 yr How about Buxtehude? http://www.rodneyjantzi.com/media/Preludium,%20Fuga%20und%20Ciacona%20C%20Major%20-%20Buxtehude.wma
May 6, 200718 yr Prokofiev (piano concerto #3, my favorite piece) followed by Rimsky-Korsakov(Sheherazade,Its late so I can't spell).
May 7, 200718 yr For those who know me, you'll know my response.Yes, Vivaldi's my favorite. Can't you cut him a little slack at least once in a while? A number of years back, I was teaching in a music camp. The camp orchestra and chorus sang a Vivaldi "Gloria". One of the other piano teachers and myself (I was teaching composition) did a little comedy sketch called "Vivaldi in the age of Xerox"... we had a pile of paper at the piano, one of us played the opening phrase of the Vivaldi Gloria... over and over and over again, as the other one turned a single page at each repetition of the main theme.
May 7, 200718 yr A number of years back, I was teaching in a music camp. The camp orchestra and chorus sang a Vivaldi "Gloria".One of the other piano teachers and myself (I was teaching composition) did a little comedy sketch called "Vivaldi in the age of Xerox"... we had a pile of paper at the piano, one of us played the opening phrase of the Vivaldi Gloria... over and over and over again, as the other one turned a single page at each repetition of the main theme. I don't quite get what you mean there qc, mind explaining?
May 7, 200718 yr I don't quite get what you mean there qc, mind explaining? if you know the piece in question, the opening is rather repetitive.
May 7, 200718 yr That sounds hilarious, beats the sketches the idiotic leaders put on on scout camps by far ;)
May 7, 200718 yr Oh, cut the man some slack... that gloria is beautiful... and he only repeats the opening three times at first.... while he has a very distinctive style, he was able to create great variety from a very strict format.
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