Music you don't "get"

[bombasticDarren]

4) Quite a lot of 20th Century Music - Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Shostakovich are a long way off. I don't think you can ask for any more at present...Well all I can say there is that you have a hell of a lot to look forward to

I would throw that statement right back at you my friend... with reference to Renaissance music..

Between us we have skillfully highlighted one of the joys of joining forums just like this one; the chance to inform and be informed by others, to pass on our enthusiasms to each other...(I could go on...)

[bombasticDarren]

5) Schoenberg's Ewartung - truly horrific, unbearable in fact.

[Seán]

4) Quite a lot of 20th Century Music - Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Shostakovich are a long way off. I don't think you can ask for any more at present...Well all I can say there is that you have a hell of a lot to look forward to

I would throw that statement right back at you my friend... with reference to Renaissance music..

Between us we have skillfully highlighted one of the joys of joining forums just like this one; the chance to inform and be informed by others, to pass on our enthusiasms to each other...(I could go on...)

It's a lovely small Forum with very friendly people and there's NO politics!

[Jared]

It's a lovely small Forum with very friendly people and there's NO politics!

Sean, we'd been waiting for you and Fergus to start up a 'Pub' called the Temple Bar??

[DaveF]

It's a lovely small Forum with very friendly people and there's NO politics!

yip, even the sensible folk and the cable fairies seem to get along no problem **









**grabs flak jacket and jumps into the nearest fox hole for cover

[Ciaran]

English Music.

Händel (German, actually!)

Edit Schumann's symphonies

Edit Rakhmaninov's symphonies

(Thanks, Seán! (Actually, I try at both of these, occasionally with some success.))

Bruckner

Wagner

Richard Strauß

Plainchant

Hooray for no politics!

[Jared]

English Music.

Händel (German, actually!)

Bruckner

Wagner

Richard Strauß

Plainchant

I love all of these, except Wagner. Would you like to talk about any of these, or have they long since been a closed book?

[Ciaran]

I love all of these, except Wagner. Would you like to talk about any of these, or have they long since been a closed book?

I'm not sure what the point of discussing them would be: I very much doubt that you could persuade me to "get" them, and what if I somehow managed to undermine your feelings for them? You wouldn't be happy, and neither would I!

[Jared]

I'm not sure what the point of discussing them would be: I very much doubt that you could persuade me to "get" them, and what if I somehow managed to undermine your feelings for them? You wouldn't be happy, and neither would I!

well, that wouldn't happen, but I can certainly respect someone's postion for having tried something and found it not to be to their taste... our emotional connection with music and the Arts for that matter, does tend to be such a subjective thing.

[Ciaran]

Yes. I'm not saying that anything on my list is bad music, just that I don't (in the main) get it, and don't enjoy it. There's no reason why everyone should appreciate Wagner, just as not everyone enjoys Proust or Henry James or Degas or Picasso.