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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2007-10-26 06:15
Life is short and there is so much great music to listen to. If you had to list one piece of music that I absolutely HAD to listen to before I die, which piece would it be?
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Author: ned
Date: 2007-10-26 07:13
Try.....Bergundy Street Blues played by George Lewis....in particular the version with Monetta Moore.
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2007-10-26 11:15
-- "If you had to list one piece of music that I absolutely HAD to listen to before I die, which piece would it be?" --
An extremely long piece, with frequent breaks, 100 bar rests, diminuendos around 8pm, crescendos at 8am, numerous repeats, and if possible, the composer in the wings still working very slowly on the final coda!
Steve
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2007-10-26 11:24
Beethoven's Sixth Symphony. And not because of "Soylent Green."
.................Paul Aviles
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-10-26 11:26
> An extremely long piece, with frequent breaks, 100 bar rests, diminuendos
> around 8pm, crescendos at 8am, numerous repeats, and if possible, the
> composer in the wings still working very slowly on the final coda!
You want a piece that makes you wish you were dead instead of having to listen to it? ![[tongue]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie6.gif)
--
Ben
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2007-10-26 11:31
-- "You want a piece that makes you wish you were dead instead of having to listen to it? " --
Oh no. I'd just leave a realistic cardboard cut-out in my place. ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif)
Steve
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Author: BobD
Date: 2007-10-26 11:39
If you email me I'll send it to you......
Bob Draznik
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Author: Matt Locker
Date: 2007-10-26 12:52
The Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major (the "Emperor Concerto") by Beethoven.
MOO,
Matt
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-10-26 13:05
Hoping for a few more years, I listen to classic FM, and do a bit of cl work-playing for several hours per day. Yesterday I was rewarded by M's Serenade for 13 Winds, a few days ago by Bizet's L'Arlesienne, hoping for R Strauss. Ein Heldenleben, Der Rosenkavalier, Tschi's D &T, Nut. Lots, Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2007-10-26 14:28
Onehundred gazillion Bottles of beer on the wall.
Onehundred gazillion Bottles of beer.
If one of those bottles should happen to fall......
ninety nine gazillion bottles of beer on the wall
etc
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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Author: swkeess
Date: 2007-10-26 17:34
Grieg's Holberg Suite. I have a clarinet choir arrangement of this that I would love to play through but can't find enough players.
Susan Keess
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Author: claritoot26
Date: 2007-10-26 18:47
100 gazillion minus 1 equals 99 gazillion 999 quadrillion 999 trillion 999 billion 999 million 999 thousand 999. Or something like that. If gazillion is even a real word. :-)
Lori
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2007-10-26 19:25
Okay,
The flight of the bumble bee, played ultra fast and coinciding with the cannons from tchaikovsky's 1812.
Might as well go out with a bang!
Steve
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2007-10-26 19:39
Was the intent of the original question "What one piece should I absolutely be sure to hear" or "What piece should I listen to in my final living moments before kicking the bucket"?
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2007-10-26 20:44
Monteverdi -- "Duo Seraphim" from the Vespers of 1610.
It's like St. Teresa of Avila pierced with spears by an angel. The mix of pleasure and pain are almost unbearable. God pushed Monteverdi aside, saying "Here, let me show you how it's done."
Then the two Mozart duos for violin and viola. Bathe in the small, cool stream of genius. Then the string quintets -- a river of genius. Then Don Giovanni, an ocean of genius.
Much Bach -- say the Concerto for Two Violins, especially the slow movement, and the Toccata, Adagio and Fugue for organ.
Schubert songs -- too many to name. Also the two Trios and the String Quintet.
All desert island stuff.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Mike Blinn
Date: 2007-10-27 00:02
A few times in my life, a live performance has so affected me that I couldn't breathe, that I had to force myself to take a breath. I heard Pavarotti give a free concert with the San Francisco Symphony, Kurt Adler conducting, in Golden Gate Park, 1975 (?). I was only a few feet away and it was an experience never to be forgotten.
Another instance was the Requiem by G. Verdi performed by the Hartford Symphony and Chorale. If you don't get to hear this work before you die, leave instructions to have it played at your funeral. It is phenomenal in its power to move you.
Keep breathing.
Mike Blinn
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Author: brycon
Date: 2007-10-27 00:55
The final movement of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. Not to be morbid, but it really is a fitting piece for entering the afterlife.
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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2007-10-27 03:06
<<I heard Pavarotti give a free concert with the San Francisco Symphony, Kurt Adler conducting, in Golden Gate Park, 1975 (?). >>
Hey, Mike! I was there, too. Didn't see you, though. Guess I was more to the back of the crowd.
Susan
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Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2007-10-27 03:38
"Un Bel Di" or the music from the swamp scene in "Giselle". OK, with either I will die crying, but that seems to fit the occasion better than chuckling at "I'm My Own Grandpa". Eu
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2007-10-27 06:46
Wow, thanks for all your answers. There are some pieces there that I haven't heard so I'll be sure to get them.
Just to clarify- I mean pieces that I really must hear during my lifetime (rather than something to listen to on my deathbed!)
Any more?
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Author: 2E
Date: 2007-10-27 11:57
The final movement of Tchaikovskys 6th Symphony "Pathetique" - If you know anything about this piece, Tchaikovsky died like 2 days after it was first played or something and the movement sounds like he knew he was dying etc. Quite fitting if you were just about to leave us for a better place lol. 2E
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Author: Ed
Date: 2007-10-27 12:22
http://www.notam02.no/9/
sit back, relax......
Post Edited (2007-10-27 14:16)
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Author: clockwiser
Date: 2007-10-27 14:40
Rachmaninoff -
Piano Concert No.2 - All movements
Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini
Vocalise
Film Soundtracks of the legendary film composer John Barry-
Somewhere in Time
Dances with Wolves
Out of Africa
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-10-27 14:46
Liquorice wrote:
> Just to clarify- I mean pieces that I really must hear during
> my lifetime (rather than something to listen to on my
> deathbed!)
That's a tough question ... much more metaphysical ... how do I know that I should hear it before I die unless I hear it ??? Only after the fact do I know I wasted my time ...
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Author: Mike Blinn
Date: 2007-10-27 23:46
Susan,
I was in college, it was a Sunday morning in 1975, and I remember hearing on the radio that the world's greatest tenor would give a free concert with the San Francisco Symphony in Golden Gate Park that afternoon. I jumped on my ten speed and pedaled to the concert site and sat down on the lawn directly in front of the orchestra.
When Pavarotti sang, I was mesmerized. The sheer power and beauty of his singing plus his technical perfection just got to me. I think I had tears running down my face most of the concert. Such perfection!
Not only was Luciano a great musician, he had perfect pitch. And his voice was a voice that comes along once a century perhaps. We were fortunate to hear him in his musical prime. He was known by opera fans but had yet to become the icon he became after the famous three tenors concert.
Mike Blinn
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Author: bob49t
Date: 2007-10-28 16:32
Gershwin..... Rhapsody in Blue.......... that gliss would turn me away from the brink. In fact that's what I want to PLAY at least once before the second biggest event in my life.
BobT
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-10-30 15:28
J. S. Bach, "Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor," BWV 582. My personal favorite performance (I own more than 4 dozen) is E. Power Biggs on the Flentrop organ at Harvard, recorded in 1960 and available on the CD "BACH Great Organ Favorites," CBS Masterworks MK 42644.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: marcia
Date: 2007-10-30 18:20
I have just heard the last 10 minutes of the Sea Symphony by RVW. I would have to put that on my list of "must hear". (All of it, not just the end!!)
Marcia
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Author: marcia
Date: 2007-10-31 05:48
Lincolnshire Posy--good choice! Played it this past Saturday. Great piece, and possibly the only place in wind literature where the "nerd" (we all know who that is!!) gets to shine. Loved it!!
Marcia
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2007-10-31 11:38
Lincolnshire Posy has a solo for alto clarinet. Talk about nerds ![[rotate]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley25.gif)
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Author: marcia
Date: 2007-10-31 16:31
Ken, that's exactly what I was referring to...loved playing it!! ![[happy]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley12.gif)
Marcia
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Author: BassetHorn
Date: 2007-11-01 19:39
Slow movement of Ravel's piano concerto in G. Send me to woodwind heaven.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2007-11-01 20:25
BassetHorn -
The West Point Band has a band transcription of the Ravel Left-Hand Concerto, done by an arranger there in around 1967. The contrabassoon cadenza is given to Bb contrabass clarinet, and I played it at the premiere.
Ken Shaw
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Author: 2E
Date: 2007-11-02 00:27
Maurlce Ravel - Pavane for a Dead Princess
Mozart - 40th Symphony in Gm
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Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2007-11-02 01:47
It's a bird . . .
It's a plane . . .
It's a Mozart!!
See it fly,
Way up high,
In the sky!
(Maybe the defunte princess tried to follow him, but forgot to apply the fairy dust prior to leaping)
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Author: Pathik
Date: 2007-11-02 14:15
Try I'm in the mood for love by Spike Jones and his City Slickers. Can't go wrong with that.
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Author: Gardini
Date: 2007-11-02 23:32
Not so much what I want to listen to, but what I hope to be able to play beautifully before I go.
Eric Dolphy's "God bless the Child" on my bass clarinet.
and Mozart's Clarinet concerto on a new A clarinet
Those are my musical goals for now.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-11-02 23:51
Gardini wrote:
> Eric Dolphy's "God bless the Child" on my bass clarinet.
So apropos just before passing on ..
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Author: Jaysne
Date: 2007-11-03 01:37
"Gluck, das mir verblieb"
It's an aria from Korngold's opera "Die Tote Stadt." Heartbreakingly beautiful.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-11-04 11:03
Alex wrote,
>>I'm not usually a huge fan of transcriptions, but there's a darn good wind band BWV 582 version out there.
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Yeah, I'm not wild about the idea of transcriptions, either, but since there's not nearly enough great music out there for clarinet players, we might as well steal from the best! ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2007-11-14 00:57
Live? bah, either way, it'd be Cahuzac's "Cantilene". And by a VERY good performer. Not very specific on this, but I have a Ricardo Morales recording which is phenominal, and I heard it first live by Charles Neidich which was amazing. I'd be fine with one of them performing it. Or hearing how Andrew Marriner would play it (I like the Weber CD with him on it and his father conducting.)
Alexi
[EDIT] - I'd like to change it to "Live - Cantilene by Cahuzac." and "Recording - Stanley Drucker playing the second part from Poulenc Sonata (Romanza). That'd be a great song to go to!"
US Army Japan Band
Post Edited (2007-11-14 01:03)
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Author: Michael P
Date: 2007-11-14 01:33
how about Time Remembered by Philip Sparke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoD-g1UrZIQ
or Haydn Wood's Mannin Veen
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Author: Michael P
Date: 2007-11-14 01:35
how about Time Remembered by Philip Sparke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoD-g1UrZIQ
or Haydn Wood's Mannin Veen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5KmhOwaFq0
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Author: Alexis
Date: 2007-11-14 17:17
Mozart Piano Concerto in A No. 23
I think it was one of his favourites too.
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Author: toney
Date: 2007-11-14 19:29
vienna philharmonic live. Adagio of mahler 5. then I could easily go in piece at any point after.......
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