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  • I know I posted this somewhere else on the boards...
    If I were dead, could I do this?
  • If I were dead, could I do this?
  • Possibly the best American symphony; also prominent in the soundtrack to Alien.


    If I were dead, could I do this?
  • the first night of the proms starts on friday bbc one at 8pm....
    Just Keep Things Simple.....
    Love Goldfrapp.....
  • I'm afraid my tastes are not very sophisticated yet.  Mostly, just little ditties as I study.  But, I totally adore Beethoven's "Fuhr Elise".  It has to be one of the most beautiful love songs ever written.  And, here is the thing that blows me away about classical compositions, where "Fuhr Elise" is just one example of so many.  How the heck do they portray something (another little ditty, as an example, is "Flight of the Lonely Beetle") so clearly that I can either envision it ("Beetle") or feel it like a hammer ("Elise") without a single word spoken.  Just awesome!.
  • Rachmaninoff - Cello Sonata in G Minor.


    '' Sometimes I think I've felt everything I'm ever going to feel and from here on out I'm not going to feel anything new, just lesser versions of what I've already felt ''
  • Dream of Gerontius


    Officium defunctorum

    Post edited by Cervus at 2013-08-02 16:39:07
    '' Sometimes I think I've felt everything I'm ever going to feel and from here on out I'm not going to feel anything new, just lesser versions of what I've already felt ''
  • Though we may deserve it, it will be worth it.
  • Cantata Profana


    Diana Damrau -Queen of the Night...Out of this world..............I wouldn't take a Haribo Tangfastic if my life depended on it!

    Post edited by Cervus at 2013-08-03 01:58:16
    '' Sometimes I think I've felt everything I'm ever going to feel and from here on out I'm not going to feel anything new, just lesser versions of what I've already felt ''
  • I watched Spanish dancers dance to a performance of Ravel's Bolero at the Royal Albert Hall. Fantastic :D
  • Cervus said:

    I wouldn't take a Haribo Tangfastic if my life depended on it!



    Why would you want to take sweets to the opera?  :P
    Though we may deserve it, it will be worth it.
  • On the original instruments.

    If I were dead, could I do this?
  • ^^^^ That is stunning......I know it is not in the same league but I have one of these (it is actually the same one I used to play in junior school) I went back years later to find it shoved in a cupboard as it had been replaced with plastic ones. The horror!
    It is such a beautiful thing.

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    Post edited by Cervus at 2013-08-05 02:53:23
    '' Sometimes I think I've felt everything I'm ever going to feel and from here on out I'm not going to feel anything new, just lesser versions of what I've already felt ''
  • I inherited a couple beautiful wooden recorders from an elderly lady I cared for in her last years. I can play the flute and clarinet with basic proficiency, but I can't seem to play a decent melody on their simple country cousin.
    If I were dead, could I do this?
  • A brilliant scene: the juxtaposition of the man's vulgar nature with the tenderness of the piece. I wonder, though, whether or not the man was as much of a beast as they portray him.

    If I were dead, could I do this?

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