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Day Six
What band or musician is most important to you?
I have come to the realisation over the last decade that music actually isn't particularly important to me. There is music I quite enjoy listening to - classics like Beethoven, Handel, Mozart and so on, folk and folk-rock like Fairport and rock mostly from the 60s and 70s - but none of it is really important to me in the sense that I would be devastated to be without it. Words are absolutely essential to me, OTOH, and there is some music I really dislike because of the words - if, for instance, a poem is rewritten or distorted, as in Brittain's War Requiem or I just dislike the words, as in Vaughn Williams' Sea Symphony. (I have a real problem with that particular poet. Or, rather, not with him but hos poems.)
Jazz mostly gets on my nerves and Wagner either leaves me cold or irritates me. I recognise this as a failing in myself. I am very, very much a Radio 4 junky,(BBC talk radio) never Radio 1(current pop) or Radio 2 (easy listening and classic pop). I listen to Radio 3 (Classics) or Classic FM from time to time. My iPod has far more space devoted to podcasts than music, and if we are driving abroad that's what I listen to rather than music as we bomb down the autoroute, autobahn or autostrada.
I have come to the realisation over the last decade that music actually isn't particularly important to me. There is music I quite enjoy listening to - classics like Beethoven, Handel, Mozart and so on, folk and folk-rock like Fairport and rock mostly from the 60s and 70s - but none of it is really important to me in the sense that I would be devastated to be without it. Words are absolutely essential to me, OTOH, and there is some music I really dislike because of the words - if, for instance, a poem is rewritten or distorted, as in Brittain's War Requiem or I just dislike the words, as in Vaughn Williams' Sea Symphony. (I have a real problem with that particular poet. Or, rather, not with him but hos poems.)
Jazz mostly gets on my nerves and Wagner either leaves me cold or irritates me. I recognise this as a failing in myself. I am very, very much a Radio 4 junky,(BBC talk radio) never Radio 1(current pop) or Radio 2 (easy listening and classic pop). I listen to Radio 3 (Classics) or Classic FM from time to time. My iPod has far more space devoted to podcasts than music, and if we are driving abroad that's what I listen to rather than music as we bomb down the autoroute, autobahn or autostrada.
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Gabrielle
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I'm the same way. I can't stand otherwise catchy tunes paired with brain-dead lyrics. Good songs should be like poems, not like the chat stream of a couple of bored teenagers.
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Wagner,.. just one piece I like from days wayyy back.. Der Meistersingers.
Jazz.. some.Real old Noo Orlyuns... or more modern - Piano... Fred Hunt isdelicious, and when I was on my last cruise there was a GORGEOUS LITTLE FIDDLER... who did Stepan Grapelli SOOOOOOO WELL... oh glory me.
Chopin for peace. The French National Anthem for being martial to!
Bruch and Mahler to sob to. I have good old Youtube on almost the whole time. SO many composers to find and enjoy.
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I am still recollecting some Old Friends I have parted with over the years, the boat would not accommodate so much of importance to me, so they were sent to the second-hand bookshop... and by golly... I STILL miss them, tho I have at great expense found a few treasures. The Tradescants... oh HOW could I NOT have John Tradescant in my life!!!! and that braved barque.. Le Jolie Brise... and Knox Johnson's Suhaili!! WHAT a boat, and voyage - he was the last true 'sailor'... they're all plastic and computer geeks now.
The Cloister and the Hearth! Geez.. and of course the Doones. Fisherman's Creek which gave me my first real 'fantasy' person.... aaahhh. teehee.
BOOKS.. yes! To hold, to read aloud, to re-read and feel almost incandescent joy over some perfect phrase!
I can hear The Messiah going full blast in the silence of this room now! So... darling Mozart and all his associates are plumbed into my circuits for ever.
There are so many still I have to obtain.. read, return, keep and find room for... teehee!!! My room will look like this before long!...
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And as for jazz... and there is always someone who says "But I'm sure you would like this sort of jazz,if you tried hard enough." No - I'm like Jonny - I hate jazz.
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I enjoy a lot of opera because of the words/story element, but I am no connoisseur as you are. I enjoyed Nabucco in the Arena in Verona a few years back. Placido Domingo was dead good - but mainly, for me, because he acted as well as sang.
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My car is poorly. :-(
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Also, we're meeting G's teacher on Wednesday evening at 18.30 so R should be home early(ish) if he hasn't forgotten.
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