grouper52
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| Where does your user name come from? Years ago a girlfriend and I visited an aquarium. In one tank were huge groupers slowly meandering. I stopped in front of it and started imitating the slow mouth pursing movements the fish were making, and the biggest one of all came right up to t... | |
| At Last Bach Really Hits the Spot The Rostopovich suggestion reminds me to suggest Bach's solo cello suites by Pierre Fournier on DG in addition, if you can find it. (419 361-2).For Bach's solo violin sonatas/partitas, those by Milstein, Szeryng, and Grumiaux are all outstanding i... | |
| At Last Bach Really Hits the Spot A few more you may enjoy:1. Bach: Trio Sonatas, Purcell Quartet, Chandos.2. Bach: Violin Concertos and Double Concertos, Arthur Grumiaux, Philips.3. Ignazio Albertini: Sonates Pour Violon & Basse Continue, Helene Schmitt, Alpha.4. Corelli: Vio... | |
| What other hobby or hobbies do you have? Amateur astronomy, bonsai. | |
| Meditative Music for Quiet Concentration Not meditative, but the Emerson Quartet's rendition of Bach's Art of the Fugue works well for me. IT doesn't fade into the background, the mundane work does, and the music so tweaks my mind that the work ends up being very well done even though I'... | |
| Best Male Singers of the 20th Century Nat King Cole. | |
| Favorite Movie Soundtrack Streets of Fire. | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? "Dance me to the children who are waiting to be born" Dance Me to the End of Love, by Leonard Cohen (whole song, really)"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now" Dylan's My Back Pages (whole song, really)(Actually, whole corpus... | |
| Your ONE all time favorite love song? Gotta agree with one of the first posts, by elgordo: Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust sung by Nat King Cole. Best voice there ever was, rendering an exquisit extended melody by one of America's best song writers, and with lyrics of a refined sensibilit... | |
| Ohm Walsh 4 Month Home Trial Money-Back Guarantee? Foster:I started hanging around this site several months ago after various 17 year old stereo components of mine started to die of old age, hoping to get some hints and deals for a long-needed upgrade (obviously more a music lover than an audiophi... | |
| Bose 901 Got to agree with the early-901 nostalgia. Bought a pair late in my Navy days, around '76 I think it was, with some sort of receiver and a used AR "on/off-switch-only" turntable. Was married to a professional violinist for seven years after that, ... | |
| Classical music - starting points I think that with classical music it is really essential to get a decent recording. Who performs it, and sometimes how well it was recorded, makes all the difference, whether you are starting out or have listened your whole life.I find the custome... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music 1) Richard Strauss, Last Four Songs (Vier letzte Lieder) sung by Lucia Popp, on Sony with Thomas conducting LSO: play it late at night, and if you cannot get that recording don't bother. 2) Nathan Milstein's Bach Solo Sonatas/Partitas. 3)Quan Zhou... |