From a vault in Paris: The sound of opera in 1907

International Herald Tribune ^ | February 16, 2009 | Alan Riding

[Cincinna]

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[Lexinom]

That is indeed something! I would like very much to hear "Les Urnes de l'Opéra".

You might be one of the very few FReepers who might appreciate this.

[Cincinna]

Thanks Lexinom. I really do appreciate Poulenc.

You would be astonished as to how many music lovers there are here at FR.

[libh8er]

You would be astonished as to how many music lovers there are here at FR

But how can that be ? I thought we were gun toting, Bible holding, tobacco chewing, pickup truck driving.. philistine hicks.

[Darkwolf377]

I guarantee you there’s more real music on one of those discs than there was represetned on that cruddy Grammy fiasco.

[Darkwolf377]

Any lover of orchestral music must check out the book THE REST IS NOISE: LISTENING TO THE 20TH CENTURY by Alex Ross. It is an amazing and amazingly enjoyable look at the sound of 20th century orchestral music. It’s one of those books you open to read a few pages, and you look up 100 pages later and it’s after midnight.

[Lexinom]

That does sound interesting. I was an accomplished amateur pianist at one time (have some recordings on the Web), but the stress of current realities has sucked the joy and desire necessary for music out of my soul.

[Darkwolf377]

I bet you would enjoy this book. It’s some of the very best writing about music I’ve ever read because he makes you want to hear the pieces he’s writing about, but he never forgets the larger picture, how the composers got along with and were inspired by each other, how the public and critics reacted, and how as the century progressed composers got away from 19th century romanticism and moved towards atonal and serial writing. It’s a unique book because I enjoy the writing even if I don’t agree with his enthusiasm for certain types of music.

[libh8er]

It is an amazing and amazingly enjoyable look at the sound of 20th century orchestral music

I just couldn't get into 20th century orchestral music. I mean the Mahler's and the Bruckner's and the likes. Mahler's #1 is ok, but the rest is not for me. Give me good old classical to mid Romantic any day.

[Darkwolf377]

I agree—which is why I am enjoying this book. If it can make ME interested in serial music, it’s got something going on.

[Sarah]

Oh my gosh, that got me on a 1/2 hour wasted listening to Cello... etc. Youtube must be an enemy tactic to keep people from their work....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6yuR8efotI

Mischa Maisky He’s so good. Wow.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[carumba]

I thought we were gun toting, Bible holding, tobacco chewing, pickup truck driving.. philistine hicks.

You might want to include the former pot smoking, maggot infested, long hair hippy types.

[CzarNicky]

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[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“I just couldn’t get into 20th century orchestral music. I mean the Mahler’s and the Bruckner’s and the likes. Mahler’s #1 is ok, but the rest is not for me. Give me good old classical to mid Romantic any day.”

The same here.

[aimee5291]

‘You would be astonished as to how many music lovers there are here at FR.’

Oui :)