Music you've still not grown to like

[Serial_Apologist]

Finally, a, message for esteemed member, Flossie. If there is ONE great composer whose music cannot be easily slotted into any particular era it is that of Josef Anton Bruckner. That is its very attraction for so many devotees like myself. For all its supposed 'weaknesses' and 'faults' it is completely and utterly unique and TIMELESS.

Certainly Bruckner's own peers didn't seem to think it particularly' belonged' to the 19th Century whether they were fans or fierce opponents, quick wits or dimwits!

You ARE (were) Scottycelt - as many of us always suspected - and I wish to claim my 2p.

[cloughie]

Cloughie,you're getting confused with LvB 9

No I'm not but the same applies.

[Dave2002]

Ah!,you've got me there Dave,I don't know it.

I would sugggest you pretend you haven't heard about it, if I were you!

[Daniel]

Sometimes empathy with certain music abandons me for unclear reasons, but the estrangement feels temporary. I lost my connection with Beethoven for quite a while (possibly he was on a train ...) which really surprised me, but I knew that situation couldn't persist unless I was going to have a complete personality change.

However, there are some composers where the loss of appeal feels more permanent. It's not (generally I think) that I don't recognise it as good music, it's just the emotional/intellectual pull has gone. And with hindsight I might say that with some of this stuff I had never really grown into it, but took a while to realise it.

The Bruckner symphonies always sound as fresh as a daisy to me.

[P. G. Tipps]

Don't worry, keep eating the bananas. I think they might be good for the brain

I keep telling my own peers that eating too many bananas can be fattening and is therefore bad for the heart which is of much more concern to me than a brain. I can survive without a brain as I've got this far without one so a healthy heart is my very first priority. I don't think I could survive without a heart.

Bruckner had a heart, Brahms had a brain.

Take your pick!

[teamsaint]

I keep telling my own peers that eating too many bananas can be fattening and is therefore bad for the heart which is of much more concern to me than a brain. I can survive without a brain as I've got this far without one so a healthy heart is my very first priority. I don't think I could survive without a heart.

Bruckner had a heart, Brahms had a brain.

Take your pick!

Scotty, talking of Brains, I thought you might enjoy this wiki article, on "Le Marteau Sans Maitre" by Boulez.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_marteau_sans_maître

Just PM me if you need any points clarifying.

[Dave2002]

I keep telling my own peers that eating too many bananas can be fattening and is therefore bad for the heart which is of much more concern to me than a brain.

Bananas are high in potassium, which in moderation is a good thing, and probably helps the heart.

[EdgeleyRob]

I would sugggest you pretend you haven't heard about it, if I were you!

Trouble is now I've got to try to hear it.
But thanks for the warning

[P. G. Tipps]

Bananas are high in potassium, which in moderation is a good thing, and probably helps the heart.

'Probably'?!!! Sounds like the wholly inconclusive findings of some obscure group of Scandinavian scientists, which are then inevitably promoted as a 'medical breakthrough' on the Today Programme.

[Dave2002]

'Probably'?!!! Sounds like the wholly inconclusive findings of some obscure group of Scandinavian scientists, which are then inevitably promoted as a 'medical breakthrough' on the Today Programme.

They really are high in potassium.

[Serial_Apologist]

They really are high in potassium.

I've often thought Today's presenters must be on something.