learsfool
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| Classical Music for Aficionados I started typing a post, went back to refer to an earlier one, and then my text disappeared! So retyping, and apologize if this gets posted twice somehow. Just catching up on the thread. rvpiano, the Brahms horn excerpt you mentioned (from the 4th... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados rvpiano - no, I don't know Doug. I have heard of him, but haven't ever hear him play. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados rvpiano, your comments do indeed agree with that of many scholars. Many musicians, however, hear quite a few echoes of Handel in the orchestral music of Brahms in particular. I am not denying that Bach is a heavy influence at all, of course, just ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I would not presume to judge such a contest - those are all very good choices, and different people will have different favorites. I will mention one of my favorites, though, that I doubt would be mentioned by anyone but a horn player. It is near... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes, good comments, rvpiano. Both were heavily influenced by the baroque. Brahms was actually even more influenced by Handel than by Bach. The influence of Bach on Wagner is well documented, too.schubert, are you actually trying to say that you... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hi gdnrbob - schubert is correct. Brahms literally grew up playing piano in some pretty nasty brothels. Women were either madonnas or whores for him forever after. One wonders if his experiences in them also contributed to his lack of confidence... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hi schubert - yes, there is an abundance of great choral music in the Twin Cities. And you also have the Mask of the Flower Prince blogger - one of the best in support of symphonic musicians everywhere (I do know his real name). Not sure what you... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Craig, what you have heard about Brahms is true, as far as being the last of the major composers to use natural horns in his works. What Brahms did in his symphonies, for instance, was (generally) to use one pair of natural horns (Horns I and II),... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hello all - the Schumann Konzertstuck is indeed a great piece. I do have that Gardiner recording, though it would be not quite correct to call all of the instruments natural horns - at least a couple of them do have valves on that recording. They ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I have just discovered the existence of this thread, which I see has been going for several months now! I am not on this site as much as I used to be. I hope that this thread survives as long as the jazz one has - certainly the discourse here is ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi guys - still lurking and glad to see that the conversations are generally more civil again. Ghosthouse, I want to respond to your yin-yang comparison of Frogman and Orpheus. I will state first that I also do not doubt that Orpheus accurately ju... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi Alex - I just caught up with this thread again, and wanted to chime in on Dizzy, being a professional brass player myself. Everything Frogman has said is true, and he explains it about as well as it can be explained to a layman. Dizzy was sel... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Interesting discussion here re Davis, Morgan, and Brown. This is more up my alley, being a professional brass player. As Frogman has said, the removal of Davis would have changed the development of jazz much more than the other two, and I think ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi Orpheus - I have deliberately refrained from joining the arguments here the last several months, though I have read it all. I am done arguing with people here. I was very surprised, therefore, that you actually called me a "troll." Please e... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Here is a link to an article on something we have discussed quite a bit here: http://arbanmethod.com/wyntons-twelve-ways-to-practice/ |