Originally posted by Ferretfancy
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Music that doesn't move you
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Originally posted by Conchis View PostHe is a composer who seems to appeal to intellectuals and I'm not an intellectual.
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except not for you, obviously.
The world doesn't ( except perhaps in a professional way) divide neatly that way in any case.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by Conchis View PostThe recently deceased George Michael.
Talented man but I never cared for his stuff. He had a good voice, but (imo) over-sang (a besetting sin of pop singers in the 80s).
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostI agree mostly with you and was not impressed by most of his output BUT I revisited his Songs from the Last Century album on which he sings really well, not oversinging, some good songs, proper songs as the late Benny Green would have called them - Where or When, You've changed good examples and his interpretation of Roxanne is fine.
Thing is, I usually find with any musician with a substantial body of work , that I can find something to enjoy. There are a few I could name where I haven't( yet) but what's the point, other than to get others to help point the way to enlightenment?I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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The composers/works which utterly fail to do anything for me haven't changed that much in the last few years:
Most Mahler
George Lloyd
A fair proportion of Poulenc's output
Bellini & Donizetti
Monteverdi - L'incoronazione di Poppea, sadly I've never been so utterly disappointed & bored by a work I thought I should admire & and be moved by
Berlioz: Requiem, just leaves me cold
W A Mozart: String Quartets, I don't why, perhaps I expect too much.
Scriabin: steadily going down in my estimation recently
Brett Dean, Turnage & George Benjamin
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostThat rules out a helluva lot of jazz - jazz musicians (especially saxophonists) have a particular liking for playing anything in the key(s) of B flat; maybe it's the equivalent of C major for pianists!
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostAha! - thanks for that explanation, EA.
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Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View PostThe composers/works which utterly fail to do anything for me haven't changed that much in the last few years:
Most Mahler
George Lloyd
A fair proportion of Poulenc's output
Bellini & Donizetti
Monteverdi - L'incoronazione di Poppea, sadly I've never been so utterly disappointed & bored by a work I thought I should admire & and be moved by
Berlioz: Requiem, just leaves me cold
W A Mozart: String Quartets, I don't why, perhaps I expect too much.
Scriabin: steadily going down in my estimation recently
Brett Dean, Turnage & George Benjamin
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Changing tastes tend in my case to go in the other direction, that is I go for years thinking the music of a particular composer, or of a particular genre (eg. Lieder), is not for me by any stretch, and then at a certain point there's a "click" and I plunge headlong into whatever it is. In other cases it's a slow process. In many cases it happens through a nudge in the right direction from someone else, who might not even now s/he is doing it. (That's one reason I hang around here!) As a result I've come to think that if there's something I don't like it may well be principally the result of lack of imagination on my part. It's perhaps a question somehow of finding a reflection of oneself in the music (or sonic art whatever the difference is), or finding a reflection of the music in oneself. So if I say I don't appreciate Sibelius or Tchaikovsky or wind quintets that may well mean they're waiting in the wings to become important to me at some future point. On the other hand if I say I don't appreciate Rachmaninov or romantic Italian opera or pretty much all British music between Purcell and Cardew with the exception of Tippett and some RVW, that future point may well be situated some way beyond whatever my lifespan ends up being!
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