it's satie
― þjóðaratkvæðagreiðsla (clouds), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
That would've been one of my guesses after flipping through my book of wedding piano music.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Rachmaninoff or Chopin
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
"it's satie"
bingo! winner by a mile.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
Hah, and I'm sure they all only listen to that one thing, too.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
there's a couple that people recognise i think
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
Bizarre.
― skip, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:45 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
bet they probably don't listen to it at all
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
satie and glenn gould, shit i'm that customer
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
"Well, it's not meat but I suppose I better buy some for appearances."
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
i think as a precursor of ambient music and huge film/TV earworm people might be able to handle listening to the rugged stylings of "Trois Gymnopedes"
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
OH GOD WHAT IS THIS SHIT TURN IT OFF I THOUGHT IT WOULD ROCK MORE
guys
IF IT FLOATES, WE KNOAWE IT'S A HIPSTERE
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
*wonders if xenakis is #3*
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
annnd i'm sorry for running in on that note, i love this thread but i never have anything to contribute. *sidesteps off*
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, I always thought of Satie as 'classical music for people who don't listen to classical music'.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
satiesque is one of the worst reviewer-speak for "tinkly major key piano music" but none of the assholes writing "satiesque" music would've written something as weird as the "3 sonneries de la rose-croix"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOGPcD2A9g
― þjóðaratkvæðagreiðsla (clouds), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
one of the worst reviewer-speak buzzwords* rather
hating on people for wanting to hear some classical music they enjoyed in a movie is kinda the worst caricature of the classical music listener - I don't listen to lots of Satie but c'mon y'all drop the snob act, it's a bad look
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
i like when someone buys ANY classical. i ain't no snob. still think i should give out a free classical album with every purchase. but i don't even know if people would take them for free! i mean i sell classical but 99.9% goes to classical people. i'm always amazed by the lack of crossover. despite being a rockhead i ALWAYS bought classical records at thrift stores and elsewhere. for decades. and apparently this is really not that common. it really is a rarefied audience. in this case meaning the audience is rare to find. which isn't the meaning of rarefied at all.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
Who was being snobby about Satie?? I like Satie fine. My comment wasn't a putdown.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i don't think anybody here said otherwise?
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
I admit I intended my wedding piano music book to be a little bit snobbish.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
i sell classical but 99.9% goes to classical people. i'm always amazed by the lack of crossover. despite being a rockhead i ALWAYS bought classical records at thrift stores and elsewhere. for decades. and apparently this is really not that common.
To generalize: much classical music, especially common practice repertoire, would seem to work pretty differently from pop/rock and emphasizes a different mode of listening from that used for music with relatively flat dynamics, a steady rhythm section, repeated cyclic chord progressions, and riff/motive-based melody. (Sure, CPP music works with motives but often does so in a different way, emphasizing e.g. transformation and development.) Many pop/rock listeners might not be in the habit of listening for the large-scale formal issues and developmental processes we find in CPP music? Satie's big 'hits', on the other hand, do work pretty similarly to how pop works!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
Jazz is much closer to pop/rock in many ways.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
classical might share an intimidation factor with jazz. like, where do you start? i have definitely had people ask me to recommend some jazz to them cuz they had no idea what was good/what they would like/etc. which is hard! a lot of people start with miles davis and never go on from there. i don't know what i would give people in the way of classical. to start with. maybe bach is the way to go. or come to think of it just some nice piano music! some debussy maybe. then i'd tell them that miles davis was a big debussy fan and sell them some miles davis.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
And then you can sell them some Gil Evans, and then you can tell them how Gil was a big Delius fan, and then you can sell them some Delius!
― multi instru mentat list (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
Today is Kalevala Day so please listen to Kullervo or Pohjola's Daughter or something!
― Call the Cops, Thursday, 28 February 2013 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
As if you people needed to be told!
― Call the Cops, Thursday, 28 February 2013 09:16 (eleven years ago) link
I did need to be told! I'll be spinning Sibelius' 4 Legends (the Horst stein recording) and Amorphis' Silent Waters!
― multi instru mentat list (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 28 February 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
Good choices. You can stare at stuff like this at the same time: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Gallen_Kallela_The_Aino_Triptych.jpg
― Call the Cops, Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
I adore Gallen-Kallela. Someday I'ma make it over there and get me an eyeful of him first-hand.
― multi instru mentat list (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/arts/music/van-cliburn-pianist-dies-at-78.html?src=rechp&_r=0
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 March 2013 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
Anybody see the first part of The Sound and the Fury on BBC Four last night?
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 13 February 2013
yeah. this is a three part three hour bbc series on 20th century classical music. if unlike me you're in the UK you can still watch the whole thing online, though ep 1 has only three days left.
the full perfomances on the red button were nicehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01531w2/The_Sound_and_the_Fury_in_Concert_Cage_Feldman_Reich_Monk_Part_and_Benjamin/
― don't call it a cloud rap i've been high for years (zvookster), Saturday, 2 March 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to late Stravinsky. Getting near the end of Stephen Walsh's hefty biography and listening along to the late serial stuff I've not knowingly heard before. Threni (or most of it) is much more engaging than I was anticipating and Movements for Piano and Orchestra sounds just as Webernian as its reputation suggests. I believe I can dig these.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 2 March 2013 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to Crime and Dissonance
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 3 March 2013 11:25 (eleven years ago) link
believe in the webernianisms
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 11:31 (eleven years ago) link
Only thing I believe in these days..
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 3 March 2013 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
"Il Buio" always sticks with me
― approx. david bowie (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 3 March 2013 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
Ricreazione Divertia is my favourite atm.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 3 March 2013 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
I want to argue that Band of Susans was the best that NY minimalism ever got, by quite a distance (even if Young composed the works he is know for in NY, he is an LA kinda guy).
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 9 March 2013 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://thestar.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bf8f353ef0120a8ebc725970b-320pi
― j., Tuesday, 12 March 2013 07:38 (eleven years ago) link
so Elgar's first symphony is pretty awesome, huh
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 08:48 (eleven years ago) link
Yes it is. The 2nd even better IMO. My faves are the 2nd, the Cello Concerto and the Falstaff symphonic poem.
― multi instru mentat list (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
I only know the Cello Concerto and it is indeed awesome.
Sorta related: I finished reading Britten's Children, about Benjamin Britten's relationships with adolescent boys, and about how he uses children and child singers in his works. Really interesting, and a bit hard to take at points... As a former boy singer myself, I have sung so much of his stuff, which probably increased my interest.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
NOOOO...
But, really, Band of Susans over Steve Reich??
And, come on, that's totally cheating re Young.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
Absolutely: there was no way he could ever have found enough La Montes for a band of them.
― Call the Cops, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
Ha.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqODySSxYpc
Favorite performance of this. Holy shit.
― I sleep with my enemies. They're the ones with passion for me. (Turangalila), Friday, 15 March 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
Can't click at work, whose is it?
― a church not made with ham (Jon Lewis), Friday, 15 March 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link