mpaton2004 wrote:
pogo wrote:
mpaton2004 wrote:
I tend to listen to Classical mainly, as I am a pianist, trained classically at the RCM, also with the RNCM - I do still find time a few times a year to play in concerts, usually for Gents clubs and private functions. I'm also a season ticket holder at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
I think most modern stuff is claptrap, but then one does get spoiled by the depth within Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven et al!
With you all the way!!
When I was a kid I was going to be a soloist. Auditioned at the Royal School etc., but basically wasn't good enough. Major blow at the age of 16! I haven't played seriously in public for years but occasionally play for the rugby club and/or the odd pub..
Nowadays I'm still good enough to know how bad I am!!
Personal favourite composers the "mega three" as above, plus most of the other classical / romantic composers and a few of the more "modern" ones - Rachmaninov, Gershwin, Malcolm Arnold (I have a real softspot for his "Concerto for Phylis and Cyril" - it always brings a smile to my face, and I was at the premier when it was recorded) and others - but emphatically not Birtwhistle, can't stand his stuff! I enjoy playing Joplin rags for personal entertainment on the, increasingly infrequent, times I assault the piano.
Oh... Almost forgot Hummel...
To sum up... Basically, "Pogo" is "dead square, man".
Most excellent.
I played Rach 3 back in 1992 in a music competition, although I prefer the Rach 2 and Paganini Rhapsody, more interesting pianistically and musically. Rach 3 is just like a set of linked exercises, similar to playing the Etudes-tableaux cycles through, not as hard as "Shine" would have you believe, plus my hands are similarly sized to Rachmaninoff's
I've got a 1990 Steinway B which was rescued from a church and rebuilt, but I'd really like a Fazioli or a Bechstein - depending on the finances, we'll see!
You lucky dude to have that Steinway. I do have a Steinway Grand in our conservatory doo-dah at the back of my own house.
As you are aware Martin.. I sing in an acclaimed choir - we do have a couple of CDs out .. (hint
)
We do any number of choral pieces .. and did a medley of Beatle medleys as part of our programme last year. This year was more traditional Christmas Carols .
Why a choir? Oh.. I think there is nothing more uplifting and enthusing than the human voice as a medium of music. No one is tone deaf and all of us can use our voice to express human emotion and
feeling
There's also the cameraderie.
I was a choirboy.. boy soprano. I was accepted at Chetham's in Manchester for my voice, piano and flute as a boy.. but I also have an aptitude for Maths and Science. These pay more money than being a part of an orchestra .. and I decided .. with my parents' approval to stick with the Grammar School place.
I still sang with the local Church, local Cathedral and School Choirs. As you can accept .. these were formal and Church based .. but Church Traditional still requires great pitch and interpretation of the music.
On my adolescence.. I let my "voice" rest and then found I could still sing to standard as an adult. I joined the UMIST/Owens Choral Society when an undergraduate at UMIST.
Oh what music do I like.... Like you, Martin and jec, I think I am spoiled for choice
There is so much to really lose oneself into. All wonderful.. and I have always been gobsmacked by the range and depth of human TALENT down the centuries.
I have many similar to Mad Doc , Swiss main family, and Ernest, pogo and yourself no doubt in my collection.
I do enjoy modern stuff. Naturally I have the POLICE in my collection and Sting has composed some worthy modern classics. I think "Fields of Gold" is probably his finest as this can be interpreted in many a musical directiion.
A recent poll on R2 voted "Queen" as top group of all time. Hmmm!" Am torn as I appreciate the music value and classical influences im Mercury/May compositions.. but I still lean to the Beatles. Their songs can be interpreted in many variations .. as displayed by the 5th "Beatle" and his son over the "Love" album.
It's when you isolate the recordings from the collecitve engineering and dubs.. that you get to the nitty gritty and this is where you start to appreciate jthe
artistic value of our modern classics.
I think in musical tastes .. I have much in common with you and jec and pogo. I think driving wise.. I have much in common with pogo and safety wise ,.. many things in common with you Martin.
Tis a blend
I do hope Jub Jub will look at this thread. These are the threads where we shed other conflicts and get to know the person behidn the posts FOR REAL.
It means that even if we disagree with a point of view.. we know the reality of the person stating his case and whilst we may disagree on these political and emotional issues ... we still have in back of our minds the real personality which we like, respect and on some issues will agree to disagree and still remain "virtual pals on speaking terms!"
That's waht the internet should be about! I do hope those zealots take some note here and I do hope Jub Jub will chat to me on cycling, rides, thrill of the exercise and achievement and will tell us what musci he loves and why. It helps mate! No one here is hostile and sometimes .. just removing from argument as Martin does .. lets us get a glimpse of the real person behind the posts
Jub and pals .. I do hope you will visit and join in our lighter topics here.
C'mon .. give us some of your humanity and more normal emotion!
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