Posted on 12/27/2013 11:18:33 AM PST by beaversmom
If you had to pick just one piece of music (song or purely instrumental) as your TOP favourite, what would it be? I've got SO many loves, but if I had to choose a very top ONE, it would be The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel.
It was my first love musically as a child (6 years old in 1973 when I first heard it) and has stuck with me all this time. It is poetic, beautiful, and passionate. It taps deep in me bringing out so many emotions. I absolutely love the opening line..."Hello darkness my old friend..." That is pure magic to me. I love how the intensity of the song progresses with guitar and pace.
Tell me yours and why and include You Tube video and lyrics if desired. :)
Classical — Beethoven’s 6th
Popular — Doobie Bros, “Listen to the Music”, happiest song I’ve ever heard
Absolutely beautiful choice.
This is a difficult one to nail down though. So much to choose. Sometimes I pity deaf people when I hear music.
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica.”
Or maybe the Brandenburgs. But there are so many I could hardly bear to live without.
Hallelujah Chorus from The Messiah. Believe it or not, I sang in a public high school choir that placed third in the state high school choir competition singing that piece.
I doubt if they would even allow it as an entry today.
William Tell Overture
I know. Do you pity those more that have never been able to hear or those that could once hear and can no longer? I don't know how I would get along with out being able to see, but hearing would be so awful, too.
That’s the easiest question I’ve heard all year (I’m a classical music listener): JOHN CAGE’S 4’33’’.
John Cage - 4’33”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY7UK-6aaNA
My favorite single piece of music is “Good Vibrations” by The Beach Boys. It is a simply amazing orchestral and vocal piece that stands out from pretty much everything done ever since.
San Lorenzo - Pat Metheny Group
GMTA
Fur Elise..
Bach: St Matthew Passion
Vivaldi, Four Seasons
And only 21’’ apart!
Rush Limbaugh has a cochlear implant. He can make out what people are saying (if there isn’t too much background noise). He says he can recognize music he’s heard before but nothing new. And he says that violins sound like fingernails on chalkboard to him now.
...a close second.
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