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Longevity indeed... Apr 1, 2010

Heinrich Pesch wrote:

John Cage: ORGAN²/ASLSP (as slow as possible)

Enjoy!


Since the performance of John Cage's piece is scheduled to last 639 years, listening to the whole thing might prove a little difficult...


 
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My current three suggestions Apr 2, 2010

When I hear these I think "absolutely splendid music, telling a story about life, including its happy times and its sad times".

Dvorak's "American" string quartet, Op. 96
Dvorak's cello concerto
Elgar's cello concerto

Sometimes I consider these concertos to be greater than the "great" violin concertos (Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn) even though I play the violin myself. Having played the "Americ
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When I hear these I think "absolutely splendid music, telling a story about life, including its happy times and its sad times".

Dvorak's "American" string quartet, Op. 96
Dvorak's cello concerto
Elgar's cello concerto

Sometimes I consider these concertos to be greater than the "great" violin concertos (Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn) even though I play the violin myself. Having played the "American" quartet myself, I consider it to be excellent to the musician also (which doesn't mean easy), not only the listener.
I think the best "classical" music all represents a story or a journey, even if the details of the meanings are not explicable in verbal language.
Oliver

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Have Translators got a musical ear Apr 2, 2010

I think translators have a more musical ear than others, just thinking of how many colleagues I know sing in a choir.... And I am seriously considering to start the next Thread on Which Books to read before I die. Though watching other peoples LinkedIn-booklists helps a lot. Susanne

 
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André Rieu Apr 2, 2010

Try to find André Rieu's orchestra !

 
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Beethoven Piano Concertos Apr 2, 2010

Beethoven Piano Concertos - not only the aforementioned No. 5, but all five of them...

http://www.amazon.de/Gulda-spielt-Beethoven-Klaviersonaten-Klavierkonzerte/dp/B000BQV52A/ref=pd_cp_m_1

(I mean exactly this Gulda play.)


 
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Piano Apr 2, 2010

Kim Metzger wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akc0v_KTZBM

This is what I asked my wife to play at my funeral, or just a little bit of it, maybe.



How was her performance?


 
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Beethoven Apr 2, 2010

Adrian Grant wrote:

How was her performance?


You mean you'd like a report from

"The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveller returns"?


 
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Once I finish translating next week... Apr 2, 2010

I will have to take time to read and find out about so much music.

Wonderful suggestions!

Many of them I know, many I don't.
So I need to take time to find the music and decide what to add to my ipod.

Decisions, decisions....

Thanks for taking the time to reply!

Who is starting the "what books should I read before I die" thread?

Have a nice Easter!

Y


 
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too late for reading Apr 2, 2010

Does anyone actually believe that they will be reading any books after they die? Would it even make any sense?
How about just some reading suggestions, plain and simple. That list will anyhow be too long to ever get through.
My main problem is not just what to read while I still have time, but what to read again, for a second or third time, or even more. It can be very troubling. I try to read several of Dylan Thomas' short pieces at least once a year. I read Neruda's biography ever
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Does anyone actually believe that they will be reading any books after they die? Would it even make any sense?
How about just some reading suggestions, plain and simple. That list will anyhow be too long to ever get through.
My main problem is not just what to read while I still have time, but what to read again, for a second or third time, or even more. It can be very troubling. I try to read several of Dylan Thomas' short pieces at least once a year. I read Neruda's biography every few years. I am always afraid that one time will be the last, and in fact that is unavoidable. So I am always in somewhat of a frenzy. And the all that new stuff, it's driving me crazy! No matter how we dig and scratch, no matter how late we stay up, we can never do more than scratch the surface. Still, a reading list that you can never get through isn't the worst thing that can happen.

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chewing about definitions Apr 2, 2010

ok let´s talk about classical music, what´s part of this, what´s not.
so, my sentence to this topic here would be: "if you ask me, before I die, I want to be able at least to click one single link again. see: a grand piano... someone is able to sing something... I want to be able to play stupid before I die and will insist on the statement that classical music is not only "mignon", BBM (bach beethoven mozart), vivaldi or stravinsky but instead a question of individual definition. befor
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ok let´s talk about classical music, what´s part of this, what´s not.
so, my sentence to this topic here would be: "if you ask me, before I die, I want to be able at least to click one single link again. see: a grand piano... someone is able to sing something... I want to be able to play stupid before I die and will insist on the statement that classical music is not only "mignon", BBM (bach beethoven mozart), vivaldi or stravinsky but instead a question of individual definition. before I die, I want to click a link to a classical music to someone who can sing and play a grand piano at the same time. and I have the feeling this link will be this here: http://shortlinks.de/k040 "









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Reading? Not according to my book. Apr 3, 2010

Brian Young wrote:
Does anyone actually believe that they will be reading any books after they die? Would it even make any sense? How about just some reading suggestions, plain and simple.


What I think we'll be doing after we die is explained in my book, "Engineers of Fate".

You may read an abridged version of its first quarter at http://www.lamensdorf.com.br/text_14.html

As you'll see, we won't have time for reading.


 
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nothing Apr 3, 2010

"We" will no longer exist after we die, so we won't be doing anything. If people want to believe in ghost, goblins, or other forms of magic or hokus pokus, then that is fine with me. I'm more interested in that list of books and music that we might at least take a shot at, while we are still around to shoot.

 
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Reading? What for...? Apr 3, 2010

José Henrique Lamensdorf wrote:

... What I think we'll be doing after we die is explained in my book, "Engineers of Fate". You may read an abridged version of its first quarter at http://www.lamensdorf.com.br/text_14.html
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quote2 "ENGINEERS OF FATE - by J. H. Lamensdorf - ... It would be interesting to analyze a reader’s motivation when they decide to read a book. The individual certainly expects to get something out of it: amusement, a challenge for their mind, cultural enrichment, and ..."

and many other things, yes. but see, j.h., some of them do it for very surface-based purposes, they do it only for styling and design reasons, really.

it takes a quite a while and quite a couple of meters of books until you get such pretty glasses like



apk12 wrote:

...this classical musician... http://shortlinks.de/k040

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And then there's always art we should see before we "die" . . . Apr 3, 2010

and that reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: "To fear death, gentlemen, is nothing other than to think oneself wise
when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know. No man knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest of blessings for a human being; and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that it is the greatest of evils." (Socrates, c. 469-399 BC)

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It's too late to add this to t
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and that reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: "To fear death, gentlemen, is nothing other than to think oneself wise
when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know. No man knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest of blessings for a human being; and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that it is the greatest of evils." (Socrates, c. 469-399 BC)

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It's too late to add this to the list on my previous comment, so I'll mention it here:

Bruch's First Violin Concerto in G minor, op.26, second movement, here performed by Itzhak Perlman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOw8PDbYWow&feature=related

[Edited at 2010-04-03 11:40 GMT]
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see? Yes! Apr 3, 2010

Thanks Suzan
Yes, and not just "art", but sunrises, and pretty girls, and storms and lightening and....


 
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