learsfool
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| Has education expanded your listening tastes? I am excited to see this thread here - I have been arguing for years on this board that more audiophiles should educate themselves more about the music they listen to, as this will only increase their enjoyment. There have been some great comments... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hey Rok - I have actually been very busy myself, and will be through the spring. Won't have much time to listen. I did have an old friend from school visiting for a few days, and we did a ton of listening to various classical things, no jazz, unle... | |
| Most underrated composer of 20th Century? Speaking of jazz, Rok and Frogman, why have there suddenly been no new posts on that thread? As for the English critic's comment, that to me doesn't even deserve a response, really. The very idea that Stravinsky "really doesn't have much to say" i... | |
| Most underrated composer of 20th Century? Hello everyone, I have had to be away from this board for a few days. Glad to see all the posts here! First, I agree with Brownsfan on Britten, though I don't think he is underrated by musicians, anyway. John Adams - he is most certainly a minimal... | |
| Most underrated composer of 20th Century? I try to stay away from threads like this, as a professional musician, however I can't resist commenting that Philip Glass will NOT be considered underrated. He is very likely to be considered highly overrated, in fact he is so now by a great many... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Lee Morgan is a great trumpet player! Another one that died young, if I remember right. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Very nice post, Frogman! I see exactly where you are coming from now, and would agree. We are indeed drawing slightly different lines, and what you said about "clear and unique" stylistic voice makes more sense than anything else I have heard abou... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi Frogman - agree with you that Marsalis is more "derivative," though that is perhaps a little harsh. However, I would also say that he is one of the greatest jazz trumpeters ever. I guess this is what I meant by the Richard Strauss analogy. He e... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hello Rok and Frogman - I have been away from this board again for a few days, and just read your recent exchanges with great interest, especially since they concern one of my favorite jazz artists, Wynton. As a fellow professional musician, I agr... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @Acman - did not mean to imply at all that it was a stupid question! I just wasn't sure what you meant, and I wanted to explain that I would actually consider Van Sweden to be MORE qualified, not less, than many others, because of his extensive or... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Acman3, I don't really understand your question? Van Sweden was a former concertmaster of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, one of the best in the world, so he was a world class violinist who put it down and took up the baton. In a very re... | |
| Jazz for aficionados HI Rok - as far as conductors go, the first thing to be understood is that this works quite differently nowadays than it did in the past. In the late 19th through say the middle of the 20th century, there were many little orchestras and opera hous... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi Rok - I will now try to answer that third question, about orchestral vacancies, turnover, etc. This depends a great deal on the level of orchestra. if it is what I called a "destination" orchestra, like the Chicago Symphony and the like, then o... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi everyone - I can't resist commenting on the Carmen. One of the very finest recordings of this, both from a musical and an audiophile standpoint, is the live recording done at the Met with Leonard Bernstein conducting and Marilyn Horne singing C... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi Rok - none of your questions have easy, short answers. I won't attempt to address them all in one response. I think tonight I will concentrate on the last three. #5 is the only easy answer. No one owns orchestras. Like pretty much all arts orga... |