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I may not know a lot about it, nevertheless it is my favorite. I have certain taste, and most of it depends on the period and style it was composed. I'm not a huge fan of the Romantic style, but I will enjoy some Dvorak, Chopin and Schubert. I prefer Baroque or Classical. I will listen to men like Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn, Dowland, Handel, Dittersdorf and Mozart all the time. I was deep into Mozart in my junior year in high school, and I still am drawn in when I hear anything from him, even his piano concertos.
There aren't many contemporary composers I like. I do enjoy Arvo Part.
There aren't many contemporary composers I like. I do enjoy Arvo Part.
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My favorite by him. Passionate and soft.
Tunglið - Ólafur Arnalds
Tunglið - Ólafur Arnalds
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One of my favorite thoughts/observations on the purpose of art. This statement is addressing visual art (painting) but this idea can also be applied to music. It simply can, by exchanging seeing with hearing. So with that said, I post the below quote/statement by Charles Hawthorne.
Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision-it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so. The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures. What people subconsciously are interested in is the expression of Beauty, something that helps them through the humdrum day, something that shocks them out of themselves and something that makes them believe in the Beauty and the glory of human existence.
The painter will never achieve this by merely painting pictures. The only way that he can appeal to humanity is in the guise of the high priest. He must show people more - more than they already see, and he must show them with so much human sympathy and understanding that they will recognize it as if they themselves had seen the Beauty and the Glory. Here is where the artist comes in.
Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision-it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so. The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures. What people subconsciously are interested in is the expression of Beauty, something that helps them through the humdrum day, something that shocks them out of themselves and something that makes them believe in the Beauty and the glory of human existence.
The painter will never achieve this by merely painting pictures. The only way that he can appeal to humanity is in the guise of the high priest. He must show people more - more than they already see, and he must show them with so much human sympathy and understanding that they will recognize it as if they themselves had seen the Beauty and the Glory. Here is where the artist comes in.
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Nocturne No. 20 in C Sharp Minor - Chopin | Performed by Sarah Chang
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Always a classy one, LaBella. It only seems appropriate that you out of all of us would be the one to come up with this thread. ^-^
One of my favorites would be "Waltz of the Flowers" from the second act of that one ballet that probably everyone knows even if they have no knowledge of the ballet otherwise: The Nutcracker.
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