Your Music-related Resolutions for 2013

[teamsaint]

Trying not to condemn any music to which one has yet to listen is always a good idea...

As to such resolutions, my only one is not to make resolutions that I either cannot or do not intend to keep - and, in any case, what inherently better about a resolution than an interrupted cadence?...

You don't have to identify new year resolutions correctly in aural tests?

[vinteuil]

As is trying not to contemn it, which is somewhat different and what our dear and very precise vindepays meant, I think.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contemn

... thank you, Caliban.

When I say contemn I mean contemn.
When I say condemn I mean condemn.

[Serial_Apologist]

Er - finish a book I started work on 11 years ago...

[Roehre]

I've got only one resolution: I don't do them

[Quarky]

To continue my quest, by one means or another, and at a pace where I have time to digest matters, to fit all types of music that are currently available for listening, into a grand scheme of things, so that I can slide from one genre to another, without agonising soul searching (should I really be listening to Petroc Trelawney's choices or endless streams of puny male pop groups on Radio 6?), but by means of a logical assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of each type of music.

Currently finding that Late Junction is the best tool for this.

[ahinton]

... thank you, Caliban.

When I say contemn I mean contemn.
When I say condemn I mean condemn.

OK, fair enough - and apologies for having somewhat misinterpreted your intended meaning; however, this makes no perceptible difference in principle to my earlier remark other than to the extent that I should perhaps now expand it to read "trying neither to condemn nor to contemn any music to which one has yet to listen is always a good idea..."...

[Richard Tarleton]

... I shall try to adopt a more kindly attitude to British music - well, at least not to contemn it unheard...

Just out of interest, v, when does music from these shores become British - is it with the Act of Union? I write as a devotee of early English music

[vinteuil]

Just out of interest, v, when does music from these shores become British - is it with the Act of Union? I write as a devotee of early English music

... Robert Carver ain't bad, neither....

[Richard Tarleton]

... Robert Carver ain't bad, neither....

New to me, thanks

[vinteuil]

... Robert Carver ain't bad, neither....

New to me, thanks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Carver_(composer)

Cappella Nova produced two discs on ASV Gaudeamus, recommended

[hmvman]

Simply to try to listen to more of it.
And maybe even attempt to listen to an entire Bruckner symphony....

[Serial_Apologist]

Simply to try to listen to more of it.
And maybe even attempt to listen to an entire Bruckner symphony....

Oh yesssss... I might have another go at one of those... and not fall asleep during Schubert 9

[mangerton]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Carver_(composer)

Cappella Nova produced two discs on ASV Gaudeamus, recommended

Actually three, and I have two more by them with music by Carver and others from the same period. I also have a CD of Cappella Nova singing music by Robert Johnson (1500-1560) and a CD of John Kitchen playing harpsichord music by William Kinloche fl 1600, both on ASV Gaudeamus and well worth a listen.

There was quite a lot going on in Scotland even then.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm hoping to give up playing the saxophone.. it's rather like giving up shouting.

[ahinton]

Oh yesssss... I might have another go at one of those... and not fall asleep during Schubert 9

It's best to fall asleep just as Schubert 9 commences, rather than actually "during" it...