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| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @larsman To me the Bible is about everything that went wrong after the suppression of women. I've read a lot of history outside the Bible, which is not strictly history, to come to that conclusion. On the music front, It sounds like you're not... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @mahgister I too am talking about balance. And my point, which I have been researching for many years, is that we live in imbalance. Patriarchy. It cannot be denied. And so, yes, we must find balance. Some people have found balance even in our i... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @mahgister I must admit that spirituality in music is difficult to talk about. Especially from my point of view because I see religions as something that get in the way. But first, of course, the composer must have a depth of feeling and spiritu... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @larsman My wife grew up in Oakland and attended Berkeley, too, only four years behind me. We wouldn't have gotten on then. I was a motorcycle-riding screw-off. I literarly dropped out of my junior year just before finals without telling anyone.... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @larsman I went to a number of John Fahey concerts in Berkeley. He must have settled there for a while. They were engrossing, and I still have my beat-up John Fahey album from the sixties. In terms of one guitar engrossing an audience, perhaps c... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @stuartk I've also heard Kottke and liked him. Today I was playing Jorma Kaukonen. I enjoyed him. Is that the style of guitar that you play? I forgot that "Poor Boy" was on "Beggar's Banquet." I thought of Jagger when I heard the song played on... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @mahgister I will focus on an example to try to discuss "spiritual" music versus "genius" music. I don't think there will be much argument if I say that Mozart was a genius. Like a great jazz master, he was known to sit at the piano and riff for... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @stuartk I’m almost positive you’ve heard of him, but for those who haven’t, here’s a taste of John Fahey. I went to several of his concerts in which he was all alone, like here, playing the guitar in what I take to be a classical or at least se... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries I'm listening to Berlioz's Requiem and liking it a lot. | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @richardbrand I had season tickets to the L.A. opera for twelve years. When I listen to operas, I've seen them produced once or twice. I must say, though, that seeing these operas was invaluable. I couldn't listen to Puccini operas until I saw t... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @saugertiesbob I don't really have to think a lot about what to post. My problem is also that I don't have a ton of time, but I can't converse about this subject with anyone else. My wife's eyes would be rolling at my first sentence. And I reall... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @asvjerry I’m posting a youtube video of Baryshnikov dancing Twyla Tharp. Her brilliance can be seen in the unusual, hesitating, stagger-steps, and sexual moves he makes. Also her humor which is often about the sexes. If you don’t like this, the... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @frogman I've never been to the Met. I pretty much only see what's put on in Los Angeles. The few times I've been to New York, my wife decides on what we see, and it's usually a popular musical. Although, I did see Twyla Tharp at the Kennedy Cen... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @frogman Don't know if I've heard Berlioz's Requiem. I'll look for it. | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries I recently saw two black operas by Terence Blanchard. One was about Emile Griffith a gay boxer in the fifties who killed in the ring an openent who taunted him about being gay. The second was about Charles Blow a gay writer who I used to see on C... |