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 What piece are YOU?
Author: Summer22L 
Date:   2004-01-20 05:00

Totally random question, but I'm curious! If you were a piece of classical (romantic, baroque, whatever) music, which would you be and why? What piece best represents your life and personality? It can be a symphony, a concerto, anything =)

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: Markus Wenninger 
Date:   2004-01-20 06:17

Adriana Hölszky, FluxReflux, for as.
Brian Ferneyhough, L´Chute d´Icare, for cl.
Kozan Kanamori, Shufugin, for shakuhachi.

They´re very complex, they use the whole range of the instrument, they´re contemporary as anything, they´re mindboggingly difficult. They´re tiresome, and subtle, I try for such a long time by now to come to grips with them, they sound absolutely beautiful. There are times when I think I comprehend them.

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: LeWhite 
Date:   2004-01-20 09:52

Any Bach fugue... Because I'm complex but very very neat and 'by the rules', but at the same time I like to break them.



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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: David Peacham 
Date:   2004-01-20 09:52

"Now the Great Bear and Pleiades where earth moves
Are drawing up the clouds of human grief,
Breathing solemnity in the deep night" (Peter Grimes)

Alternatively, the nightmare song from Iolanthe.

Or the end of Das Lied von der Erde.

Take your pick.

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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.

To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.


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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: Liquorice 
Date:   2004-01-20 12:18

"Adriana Hölszky, FluxReflux, for as.
Brian Ferneyhough, L´Chute d´Icare, for cl.
Kozan Kanamori, Shufugin, for shakuhachi"

They're unlistenable!

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: D Dow 
Date:   2004-01-20 13:53

Stravinky Symphony in Three Movements.

David Dow

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: Don Berger 
Date:   2004-01-20 14:07

Ein Heldenleben [sp?] tone poem, as in R Strauss. Don

Thanx, Mark, Don

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: contragirl 
Date:   2004-01-20 18:01

Chop Sticks!

If you knew me, you would understand... now to arrnage Chop Sticks for orchestra....

--Contragirl

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: Markus Wenninger 
Date:   2004-01-20 18:35

Liquorice,
That depends how open one´s ears are, and the stuff inbetween them. Honestly.

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: Fred 
Date:   2004-01-20 19:49


"Stranger On The Shore" . . .

chosen because I enjoy having fun with my bb buddies!! [grin]



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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: paulwl 
Date:   2004-01-20 19:49

Lately, 4'33".

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: diz 
Date:   2004-01-20 20:32

LOL @ paulwl ... I'd be the overture to Neilsen's Opera Maskarade.

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: GBK 
Date:   2004-01-20 21:06

"The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" ...GBK

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: Liquorice 
Date:   2004-01-20 21:33

"Liquorice, That depends how open one´s ears are, and the stuff inbetween them. Honestly."

So most people in the world don't have open ears or much stuff between them? This kind of arrogance often accompanies insecurity- you said yourself that there are times when you THINK you comprehend these pieces!

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: Neil 
Date:   2004-01-21 03:21

Brahms' "Tragic Overture"

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: CPW 
Date:   2004-01-21 03:25

Rachmaninov's 2nd symphony
and..........before the Ozzies beat me to it........The Vegemite song

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: chuck 
Date:   2004-01-21 03:53

"I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore"

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: David Spiegelthal 2017
Date:   2004-01-21 14:34

Alternating between Alban Berg's "Wozzeck" opera music and Tower of Power's "Squib Cakes".

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: Markus Wenninger 
Date:   2004-01-21 16:56

"So most people in the world don't have open ears or much stuff between them? This kind of arrogance often accompanies insecurity- you said yourself that there are times when you THINK you comprehend these pieces!"

Who´s arrogant, Liquorice? The phrase "most people in the world" is used by "most people in the world" to express just their inability to take a step beyond what they call good taste. Yes, I try to comprehend how to play those pieces, I am so to say gnawing my way through them, I hear the beauty in those compositions, their uncompromising complexity and dazzling demands of the clarinet´s possibilities. Music is not a matter of taste, and You´d be amazed how vast the majority of the world´s musical works of art just give a **** about well-tempered-ness and those blase ideas of the 18th-19th century. Insecure I am, indeed, about whether I do such a piece justice, whether I come up to it, whether I suceed in making myself transparent enough to let the piece come out, whether I put enough of myself aside to come to grips with its plateaus. This is something totally different from the insecurity which makes people titel "arrogant" something their taste hinders them to listen to. I would call the adjective "unlistenable" arrogant, "I don´t dig it."´d be enough - one doesn´t have to; but not to hear the brilliance in such compositions interpreted, is.

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: D Dow 
Date:   2004-01-21 17:30

Ennio Morricone is one of the true genius' of film music, and therefore I can understand the Good, Bad and the Ugly inclusion...some of you should check the soundtrack to ONce Upon a Time in the West....

I also love Varese Octandre...

David Dow

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: clarinetmama 
Date:   2004-01-22 00:41

Since getting married and having a child, "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"

:(

Jean



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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: diz 
Date:   2004-01-22 04:09

GBK said:

"The good, the bad and the ugly"

The third movement's very accurate, right? (ducks for cover)

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: GBK 
Date:   2004-01-22 04:36

"The good, the bad and the ugly" is an excellent summation of life in general.

Sometimes life is good.

Sometimes life is bad.

But most times, life is just real ugly... GBK

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: kenbear 
Date:   2004-01-22 05:00


The Aeroplane Jelly song




I guess this will resonate only in the memories of ageing Aussies
(hi diz, markp!).

As a small child I found the tune so totally satisfying that I shared it with everyone I met (once even to a herd of cows). I sang it so often and with such passion that I'm sure it became part of me at a molecular level.

Those 45+ will remember the tune, but probably not the full lyrics, which I note here for posterity:


I like aeroplane jelly
aeroplane jelly for me

I like it for dinner
I like it for tea
a little each day is a good recipe

The quality's high as the name would imply
It's made from pure fruit juice
One more good reason why...

I like aeroplane jelly
aeroplane jelly for me.

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: Jake 
Date:   2004-01-22 19:23

Mozart Requim...

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 Re: What piece are YOU?
Author: ken 
Date:   2004-01-22 22:53

Most definitely,

Send in the Clowns, (conducted by Ish Kabible)



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