mahgister

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@mahgister  I love music that calls out fascism and injustice. I suspect you are misinterpreting "calling out".  To "call out’ actually means to "draw critical attention to someone’s unacceptable actions or behavior." Thus, this is the oppo... 
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i am flabbergasted by your post... Gives us an example of music calling for fascism and injustice... Then gives us an example of anti-fascist music calling for justice ...   «I dislike  totalitarian Pope music» -- Groucho Marx      I love ... 
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When  our friend intend we relate ... Perhaps I’m interpreting this in a way you don’t intend, but I relate...  
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I dont know if i takes the times i will learn how to  appreciate every single individual artists. I dont think so. For each singular artist i listen my gut and my feeling guide me...i rarely change my mind...But there exist a slow changin evoluti... 
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Maria Callas sing "la rondine" under Tullio Serafim in a recording but it is not on youtube...    
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I prefer John Cowper Powys to Joyce litterary madness (genius) ... I could not read neither of these two works ...Anyway for someone not mastering litterary English it is impossible... I advise everyone to read Morwynn of Powys to begin with ...... 
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i will put the Mozart Requiem with Bach great mass and Bruckner great mass...I prefer the Hogwood version. Why ?  Because it direct it as an opera of the soul more than a liturgical mass. With children chorus. Astounding interpretation that beat e... 
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For the Bach great mass i cannot quit listening Klemperer huge interpretation, the greatest mass ever written ... I will put Bruckner great mass in second...  
The cool factor- who has it?
Lester Young was "cool"  and one of those who use this adjective...Chet Baker was  refered as "the Prince of cool" by contrast  but at this time this was a jazz adjective linked to black musicians.  
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I am not a fan of Opera (save exception as Faust Busoni with Fisher-Dieskau or Kurt Weil or Mozart operas or Akhnaten from Glass etc ) Because it is almost impossible to speak and saying  and singing at the same times in perfect musical harmony...... 
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i apologize to  audio-b-dog in throwing so much suggestions interrupting his works...... I had another book to suggest though which contain in it the mystery of music in relation to sound... but i will wait your OK before speaking about it ...  ... 
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To end my rant with serious talking... I understood how music is about "time"  not physical measurable time but "heart time" listening a pianist genius playing with some false notes on a bad piano, the heart of Liszt music "la vallée d’Obermann" ... 
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I dont like most popular music... But there is exception when i fall in love with a woman... Alas!  i am too old for this goddess, the most erotic singer i ever listen :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4jHHihEsC4&list=RDU4jHHihEsC4&st... 
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Another giant master of the female vocal is Abida Parveen : His voice moves mountain born from the heart ... She sing here with another singer  in a duo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D4vNcK6D38&list=RD7D4vNcK6D38&start_radio=1   ... 
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I cannot protest against the word "eclectic" to describe my taste... It fit well what anyone could think about my choices, motivated not by style or specific culture but  by what i perceived as genius in music... My second female choice  is Mari...