Why is classical music lame?

1. 21

2. Franz Schubert

3. Schubert's Fantasy in F minor D.940 (link below)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L36a9E6Pd0Q

AND

Schubert's Klavierstucke Impromptu D.946 (link below)

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

4. Classical music is immortal. It has withstood the test of time, and always will.

5. Grew up listening to my older brother play the piano. I truly fell in love with classical music when I was 13 and saw the movie Amadeus.

6. Although Schubert is my favorite composer, I would spend it with Franz Liszt, simply because Liszt is my favorite pianist. I would die happy if I could see him play. I dare to say that perhaps he was the greatest pianist the world will ever experience.

1.54

2.hmm- choice between Mozart and Richard Strauss

3.Choice between Figaro and Rosenkavalier

4.it's complex. You get not only to feel it every time you hear it, but you get to think about it as well. the first person who answered and said there's no beat illustrates that point. He can't think any more- he's got it hammered into him- and he's at the mercy, if you will, of the most primitve element.

5.Chorus in elementary school. guitar lessons at age 11. Jr high and high school chorus, pageants, shows etc. I don't think there was a time that I didn't sing. My parents were not musical, as such. They had a big battle ( I must have been 5 yrs old) were we to have wall-to-wall carpeting or a piano in the living room? The carpeting won.

6. I'd probably hang out with Strauss. At my age, running around with Wolfgang would be too tiring! Strauss loved to play cards ( skat) with the guys, play a little music, have a beer, play a little more, have another beer ( his aunt and uncle owned a brewery in Munich!). although I drink red wine, I'd give it up for a day, and drink beer.

He had a wicked sense of humor .

I'd love to hang with Birgit Nillson as well as Leontyne Price, Kirsten Flagstad, Regine Crespin, Leonie Rysanek Eva Marton, Ghena Dimitrova, and all the other big dramatic sopranos. But that's just selfishness, cause I'd want to learn more from them. (That's not a complete list, by any stretch of the imagination)

By the way, good attention getting question at the top!

Like the others, I was ready with something unprintable, but I'm glad I read further first.

Keep up the good work!

Lynn

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2. J.S. Bach (followed closely by L. van Beethoven)

3. Brandenburg Concertos (Number Six if you need a particular one; four and three are quite up there on the list as well.)

4. Intricate melodies, counter-melodies, theme development, orchestration, dynamics, music more than two minutes long without being repetitive.

5. Classical music on the radio all the time, piano lessons, flute in Jr. High/High school.

6. Tough question, it would have to be someone who spoke the same language I do. Think I might enjoy a day with Leopold Stokowski discussing his "Bach Transcriptions."

1. 14 (yes I am the baby of the regulars...)

2. Vivaldi

3. Concerto for Lute in D Major (Vivaldi)

4. I like it because it is good music, there is nothing more to it. But maybe it is because classical music requires intelligence to understand, and because I am intellectual I need that in music otherwise I get bored.

5. I heard Der Holle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen, and I was impressed. The more I listened the more I liked it.

6. Composer - Francesca Caccini, I would ask her, how did you do it? I mean she was so "big" for a woman of her era.

Instrumentalist - Senesino, or Farinelli, just to hear the castrati voice.

Dude...I was getting pretty pissed at the Classical music is lame and all this kind of stuff...Only to find out it was for a survey!What the heck...

1.I'm aged 15 this year 16 so young people love Classical as well.

2.Favorite composer?...I'd list a couple,too many of them I love...Alkan,Liszt and Bach!

3.Favorite piece?Nothing really...I love technical pieces so my repertoire is full of etudes and hard pieces...I like Alkan's Allegro Barbaro particularly though.

4.Classical is more complex in structure and I like it for that.Its also much more beautiful due to the fact it is instrumental which makes it even more abstract!

5.When I first picked up piano!Personally I liked the etudes from Chopin at first so I tried when I was a beginner(pretty stupid)but now I'm better.

6.Alkan of course!A forgotten genius of the Romantic Period.What else is there to say?Besides,Alkan spent much of his time in seclusion although he had a fantastic technique!How much more interesting can this get?

Yeah,Classical music is hard to interpret sometimes so this kills much more of that audience...Besides we can't really go back in time where the audience was full of performers and composers and those people who adore and love Classical music.We just have to make do with those people who have seen the 'light'

I think I'm taking these great answers and giving them to the managment of my orchestra in order to show them that classical music-lovers span decades and yes! all ages enjoy it!

1) somewhere in the 40-50 range....

2) Mahler and Mozart and Bach.

3) any clarinet concerto (is that biased?)

4) as a performer, it is one of the most exhilarating events to sit amongst great musicians and enter into making music. I mean, sometimes I forget to play it's so much fun. It really is a 'high'. I agree with one responder (Doc John, I believe? but forgive if I'm wrong, please) that classical music is God-inspired. I like it also because it is not yet totally subject to marketing ploys, like in other genres. When I first played in an orchestra in high school, I was hooked forever, and have been blessed to be able to make playing orchestra music a career.

5) My dad, who woke me up in the mornings to many different classical works, even tho he wasn't trained. Also my grade school band director, who loved music and installed the discipline of practicing into my heart.

6) Ha! I love your answer on this one. Probably Mendelssohn or Bach.

I thought I felt an artery pop in my head.....

1. Age - 27

2. Favorite composer - right now - Chopin, Liszt, Vivaldi, Bach

3. Favorite piece - right now - Chopin "Fantasie" Impromptu, Op. 66

4. Why would you choose classical over another genre(s) of music. - I play piano and like to play and eventually compose in the different classical styles. classical music stimulates your mind :p

5. What got you into classical? - nothing, I ALWAYS have been.

6. If you could spend a whole day and night with one composer or famous instrumentalist who would it be, and why?

Liszt - He was a punk :p - I would hang out all night with him.

1. Almost 16

2. Maurice Ravel

3. No fair...Ravel's Tzigane, or his Mother Goose Suite(both the orchestrated versions); or the second movement, the andante pastorale of Neilsen's 3rd symphony; or Mahler's 'ging heut morgen ubers feld'...Ok there's no way I can choose just one.

4. There is an endless variety and you never stop discovering new pieces or composers. It is art.

5. Band. I started on the saxophone and switched to oboe. Now I play both, and playing music is one of my favorite things to do. So playing music is what got me into classical also.

6. ...Ravel, ok. I'd just like to have a nice conversation with this musical hero of mine. Or maybe we could play some four-hand jazz.

Before answering I gotta say that's a great title to get people's attention, whether they agreed with you or were about to beat you to a pulp for insulting classical music. :P

1. 10 years younger than you. figure it out. XD

2. Rachmaninoff, Haydn (his sonatas) and Bach - and CHOPIN (beautiful melodies)

3. There's a lot. At the moment, Debussy's "Jardins sous la pluie" and the whole lot of Bach's Well Tempered Clavier

4. Well, i really wouldn't, but I also like that it has no lyrics: it's very refreshing and it gives me a wicked hobby to do :P

5. I just remember that I saw a pianist and I thought it would be cool to learn piano

6. Hard to say ... I'd really love to play Bach some of Beethoven and Rachmaninoff's music and see his expression and reaction (I imagine something like this : O.O "you call this music?!") .. maybe not spend a whole day though.

LOL That's a good one.

Well, I'm not exactly a classical musician/expert. I don't have an academic background in classical music. I'm just a common regular everyday person who happens to like classical music. I'm mostly into OPERA because I'm more into vocals than instrumental. If only you also insert questions about opera here....

Well anyway, here it goes:

1. In my 20's

2. I have plenty but I kinda listen more to Mozart and Wagner. And for opera, I have to say that I'm such a sucker for coloratura and bel canto pieces, so I'm pretty much drawn towards the works of Bellini, Rossini and Donizetti. Oh I also like some Baroque pieces/operas as well, but I don't have a certain favourite Baroque composer, though.

3. Well, I have to admit that I don't listen to instrumental pieces that much. Like I said, I'm more into vocals. But lately, I kinda listen a lot to Beethoven's Sonata No. 19, Op. 49.

4. This is also hard for me to answer. Why do I like classical music? Well, I just do. I also like other music genres as well, don't get me wrong. But there's just something about classical music that is soothing and calming. And I also like the fact that classical music is quite "clean" compared to the other genres. Honestly, I'm getting sick to see the current music industry that emphasizes more on looks and image rather than talents and artistry. Classical music is pretty much still clean in a sense that it still focuses on the music, talents and artistry. That's also one of the reasons why I have been abandoning pop music and shifting towards classical music lately.

5. Well, long time ago, I knew nothing about opera and classical music. I was pretty much green at the time. I already liked "classical music" back then, but I used to think that Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman were the REAL opera singers LOL. But then, as I joined Y/A, I met many classical music experts that have taught me a lot, direct and indirectly. And from there, I started to expand my insight on classical music and opera and got to understand a lot better. My first encounter with a REAL opera singer that really made such an imprint on me was when I saw the youtube video of Sumi Jo singing the Bell Song. I was mesmerized. Some of you here may not consider her the best singer out there, but still, because of her, it helped me open up my horizon and eversince, I only listen to REAL opera or operatic arias. I never look back and touch my Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman's recordings ever since LOL.

6. If I may change your question, I would like to spend my time with an OPERA SINGER, Birgit Nilsson. Aside from her regal laser-like voice, I often hear reports saying that she was one of the nicest human beings on Earth; totally down-to-earth, funny, and not a diva at all. I always wonder what would it be like to meet her and spend some time with her. Too bad she had already passed away. R.I.P. Madame Nilsson. Besides her, I would also love to meet Leontyne Price and Sumi Jo.