Well CZ thats an emotional decision, not a musical one. |
Bach is best, skip the rest. |
I've noticed,among non-musicians anyway, that love of Bach is often correlated to love of God. |
Well, some 60 odd years ago during summer vacation I was sitting on the back porch with my grandmother. I said to her, no doubt like every kid has ,that I was bored.
Now granny was a product of the toughest slum in Europe, the notorious Gorbals of Glasgow, Scotland and though she was a loving woman, it was strickly of the "tough love" variety.
One tough cookie , who could curdle milk at a hundred yards
with one glance. And did !
She fixed those blue eyes that could bore a hole through you skull and said one sentence that has stayed with me all my days, more so than any advice I've ever received from anyone.
She said, , "If you're bored its because you are boring".
She only completed 3rd grade but Gran was no dummy. |
Really Billbartuska?
I grew up in abject poverty, never heard a piece of Classical Music in my life, or even knew it existed for that matter.
One day coming in from a hard patrol in Vietnam I heard the great Swedish tenor Jussi Borling sing the "Un bel Di" aria
from Madam Butterfly on short-wave from Australia, it froze me like a deer in the headlights.
Classical Music was THE reason , a high-school drop-out who joined the Army at 16 had a BA and MA from elite colleges 5 years after leaving the Army.
It showed me what humans can do, while rock etc show you how low than can go.
That was in 1966, from that day to this, Classical Music is 90% of all my listening and I listen at least 5-6 hours a day ,every day. |
Ghost, I guess you are correct , the dad as violinist part just got me going. Thanks for the serving part, but like not a few "nam" vets, I ain't proud of it and who we really served.
Newbee, thanks, I have heard some of it on WI Public Radio, Shaham is amazing. |
Czarivey, you make it increasing clear that you care at all about is your self.
Brownsfan, As Augustine said, a Christian is under no
obligation to argue with one who persists in "invincible ignorance" . |
Of course you are right Al, I had just listened to Bjorling's great Butterfly with Victoria De Los Angles and had a brain freeze.
The aria I should have said was "Nessun Dorma " .
Anyone who thinks that Pavarotti was the last word on this needs to listen to the aria sung by Bjorling, on You Tube if nothing else.
Meaning NO disrespect to the great Luciano, who I love, you will receive a master class on the difference between singing loud and singing good. |
Czarivey, I'll take you at you word but you did say "I don't even care how they treat their own women and children" which is a bit callous. |
Map, I had a hard time watching Gump, not a big fan of Hanks or satire either , if that's what it was ?
To me it just said ignorance is more honored in the USA than
anywhere else, sort of like that most American of sayings. "If you're so smart why aren't you rich" . |
Ghosthouse, what are you sorry about? A bit of disagreement is good for the soul. |
Common sense is about as common as 6-legged, 3-horned Unicorns.
I don't think I have EVER see anyone extolling its virtues who wasn't just praising their own ignorance . Of course, I've never met Mapman who no doubt is the exception that proves the rule.
Re ignorance, any student who knows squat about US history
known the 2 greatest, most long lasting major threads in our history are anti-intellectualism and racism, the Alleghany and the Monongahela so to speak. |
Caarivey there were plans for a R&R Hall of Shame but Feds would not give permission for only space large enough to hold one , the Grand Canyon . |
Platoon is the most accurate one, by 1968 the US Army was in reality just an armed mob.
By 1970 so was the USMC. |
That's irrelevant , the important thing is that I was there and I've always had
the habit of paying attention.
For that matter there are hundreds , if not thousands, of credible books that will tell you same thing.
One think is fact certain , a high-ranking officer will have
the least idea of what happened, the tremendous amount of kool-aid consumed will have caused severe memory loss. |
Armed mom is a tame phrase that sounds better that what it really was. Movie Platoon was not half as bad as many units were. |
