I was tagged for a music meme
Once you have been tagged, you are supposed to write down your top dozen songs you cannot live without. You know, the ones you can listen to over and over and never get tired of. They don't have to be in any particular order.
And I could not do it. There are lots of songs that I like, and many that give me a nostalgia fix, but none that really fit the criteria of listening to over and over and not getting tired of. "Songs" are too short for all that weight, like eating peanuts one at a time when you are very hungry. The music that gives me that intensity of listening over and over is longer music, classical.
So, here is my deep-in-my-core music:
African Suite as played by the LA Guitar Quartet
Dawn Dance (title song and the entire CD) - Alasdair Frasier
Scheherazade - Rimsky-Korsakoff
Carmina Burana - Carl Orff
Grand Canyon Suite - Grofe
William Tell Overture - Rossini
Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major by Haydn
And last, because it's an entire album, Ports of Call, played by The Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy. I listened to this LP over and over and over again when I was a teenager, and now, decades later, each piece transfixes me. From the cover, as pictured on Amazon.com it had these:
Ravel: Bolero, La Valse, and Pavane,
Debussy: Clair De Lune
Chabrier: Espana
Ibert: Escales (Ports of Call)
When I heard La Valse played at the Atlanta Symphony, I was stunned. It had been many, many years since I heard it played, so it was fresh, but I knew that music, and to hear it live was astounding.
And I could not do it. There are lots of songs that I like, and many that give me a nostalgia fix, but none that really fit the criteria of listening to over and over and not getting tired of. "Songs" are too short for all that weight, like eating peanuts one at a time when you are very hungry. The music that gives me that intensity of listening over and over is longer music, classical.
So, here is my deep-in-my-core music:
African Suite as played by the LA Guitar Quartet
Dawn Dance (title song and the entire CD) - Alasdair Frasier
Scheherazade - Rimsky-Korsakoff
Carmina Burana - Carl Orff
Grand Canyon Suite - Grofe
William Tell Overture - Rossini
Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major by Haydn
And last, because it's an entire album, Ports of Call, played by The Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy. I listened to this LP over and over and over again when I was a teenager, and now, decades later, each piece transfixes me. From the cover, as pictured on Amazon.com it had these:
Ravel: Bolero, La Valse, and Pavane,
Debussy: Clair De Lune
Chabrier: Espana
Ibert: Escales (Ports of Call)
When I heard La Valse played at the Atlanta Symphony, I was stunned. It had been many, many years since I heard it played, so it was fresh, but I knew that music, and to hear it live was astounding.