Who even wants to listen to the fifth best Baroque composer? Handel, Purcell, Telemann, Rameau, Couperin, Vivaldi, Scarlatti. Take your pick from these and many others. They all have riches to discover.
Albinoni was the fifth best Baroque composer (Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Telemann): I would listen, and do. Or maybe Tartini. And I can stream any of them, and more (including the fifth best Baroque composer, Jan Dismas Zelenka).
I put a cassette tape together (Remember those?) with music for my father's memorial service in June 1997. I had the funeral home play the first cut, Albinoni's Adagio in G, as people came in. It was perfect. It's probably my favorite piece of Baroque music.
Classical music, opera and gallery art were the forms that technology allowed for.
If you wanted to see something beautiful you went to a gallery and paid money to see it. Or maybe the local rulers let you see it as noblesse oblige. But the fact is, Rembrandt or Michaelangelo were the best and most efficient way to get art to people.
If you look at the decline of great painting, it is around the time of cinema reaching maturity, when you had colour, sound and also expressionism rather than simply filming a play. Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, arguably the last great popular painting, was made 5 years before Michael Powell's Black Narcissus.
Classical music declined because of recorded and amplified music. Miles Davis didn't need 50 people. 4 would do. And classical music mostly exists as a soundtrack to today's grand operas, like Dune 2 or Lord of the Rings. That orchestral sound really works for it.
Also, I would add that there might be a Bach out there and we just don't know. Bach was not big in his lifetime and it took around 70-100 years for his works to gain popularity.
Who even wants to listen to the fifth best Baroque composer? Handel, Purcell, Telemann, Rameau, Couperin, Vivaldi, Scarlatti. Take your pick from these and many others. They all have riches to discover.
. . . . and are all better than the Dead Kennedys.
You type faster than I do. And have better taste. Thanks for the reminder.
The amazing access to music books, papers, and images online is truly breathtaking.
Albinoni was the fifth best Baroque composer (Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Telemann): I would listen, and do. Or maybe Tartini. And I can stream any of them, and more (including the fifth best Baroque composer, Jan Dismas Zelenka).
I put a cassette tape together (Remember those?) with music for my father's memorial service in June 1997. I had the funeral home play the first cut, Albinoni's Adagio in G, as people came in. It was perfect. It's probably my favorite piece of Baroque music.
You mean this one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_in_G_minor?wprov=sfti1
Yes. I had it on a CD (remember those?) titled "Greatest Hits of 1720."
Thanks for asking. By the way, if you go to this link, you can hear a beautiful rendition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbvcp480Y4
And read some of the comments. A lot of people got out of it what I get out of it.
Classical music, opera and gallery art were the forms that technology allowed for.
If you wanted to see something beautiful you went to a gallery and paid money to see it. Or maybe the local rulers let you see it as noblesse oblige. But the fact is, Rembrandt or Michaelangelo were the best and most efficient way to get art to people.
If you look at the decline of great painting, it is around the time of cinema reaching maturity, when you had colour, sound and also expressionism rather than simply filming a play. Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, arguably the last great popular painting, was made 5 years before Michael Powell's Black Narcissus.
Classical music declined because of recorded and amplified music. Miles Davis didn't need 50 people. 4 would do. And classical music mostly exists as a soundtrack to today's grand operas, like Dune 2 or Lord of the Rings. That orchestral sound really works for it.
Also, I would add that there might be a Bach out there and we just don't know. Bach was not big in his lifetime and it took around 70-100 years for his works to gain popularity.
> I’ll still say that there is little good and new in classical music
touhou?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQX-oors-CE
... and the GREAT stock of Caplanesque writings to inspire and reassure me ... and SOME others!