I is a bad, bad child
Ok, for those of you who don't already know, I'm taking a History of Opera course this semester. I can hear the 'Oh, lord no's now. Anyway. The instructor is a middle-aged woman who used to stage-direct operas in Europe. She's nice, she's funny, and she definitely knows her stuff.
One day, she and one of the students were talking about Philip Glass. As far as operas go, I can't stand the man, but his soundtracks are alright. The student, Justin (no relation to the one currently in California), admitted that he'd never listened to his operas, but liked his other works, such as The Illusionist soundtrack. I was standing by, waiting to talk with the instructor and she turned to me, asking what I thought. I said that I liked Glass's soundtracks and such fine, but that I'd stick with Zimmer.... I never should have mentioned Zimmer. It got my mind thinking and what I HAD been about to talk with her about went bye-bye momentarily.
After Justin left, I told her that I had found a band that, on the latest of their albums, had combined a film-score-esque orchestra with metal instrumentation and, on the album before their latest, had had a classically-trained lyric soprano as a vocalist. She seemed vaguely shocked that someone had thought to combine the two and I said that I could give her some of their music if she was interested. She said she was, so the next class I brought in a disc with songs from the two albums we'd discussed.
This was about a week ago. She tried to give me the burned disc back today and I told her that she could keep it. She seemed pleased.
After class, I went up to talk with her. She was practically gushing before I even got there. "The vocal lines are gorgeous! And the orchestra! And the- Oh, I love it." I told her that the songwriter for the band also composed all of the band's music, the vocal lines, and worked with Pip Williams for the orchestrations, and she shared the opinion that the man is bloody talented. I also told her that the band's first album had been almost folk metal, and she simply said "My, they've changed." Well, that got me talking about how, if you listen to their albums in order, you can see where he's decided that something worked or didn't work and determined to continue or to change it in the next albums.
Long story short, I've gotten my professor hooked on Nightwish (if anyone didn't know that was where this was going to end up, you REALLY don't know me very well), am going to be burning her instrumental and orchestral versions of most of the tracks I've given her, and have gotten her intrigued in Kamelot (mentioning that they use a trained baritone and that two of their albums covered Goethe's Faust was surprisingly effective).
And so begins another chapter in my Music Whore-dom.
Oh, and I am eternally sorry for getting Valerie hooked on Khan's voice, Nightwish's music, and anything else I've gotten her hooked on.
Oh, and doubly sorry for getting Karlli hooked on all of those AND Epica.
Oh, and terribly NOT sorry for getting Duo hooked on anything and everything.
Oh, and what I'd forgotten was that I was going to tell her that I'd managed to track down the elusive Beverly Sills version of Tales of Hoffman.....Yeah, she borrowed that too....
One day, she and one of the students were talking about Philip Glass. As far as operas go, I can't stand the man, but his soundtracks are alright. The student, Justin (no relation to the one currently in California), admitted that he'd never listened to his operas, but liked his other works, such as The Illusionist soundtrack. I was standing by, waiting to talk with the instructor and she turned to me, asking what I thought. I said that I liked Glass's soundtracks and such fine, but that I'd stick with Zimmer.... I never should have mentioned Zimmer. It got my mind thinking and what I HAD been about to talk with her about went bye-bye momentarily.
After Justin left, I told her that I had found a band that, on the latest of their albums, had combined a film-score-esque orchestra with metal instrumentation and, on the album before their latest, had had a classically-trained lyric soprano as a vocalist. She seemed vaguely shocked that someone had thought to combine the two and I said that I could give her some of their music if she was interested. She said she was, so the next class I brought in a disc with songs from the two albums we'd discussed.
This was about a week ago. She tried to give me the burned disc back today and I told her that she could keep it. She seemed pleased.
After class, I went up to talk with her. She was practically gushing before I even got there. "The vocal lines are gorgeous! And the orchestra! And the- Oh, I love it." I told her that the songwriter for the band also composed all of the band's music, the vocal lines, and worked with Pip Williams for the orchestrations, and she shared the opinion that the man is bloody talented. I also told her that the band's first album had been almost folk metal, and she simply said "My, they've changed." Well, that got me talking about how, if you listen to their albums in order, you can see where he's decided that something worked or didn't work and determined to continue or to change it in the next albums.
Long story short, I've gotten my professor hooked on Nightwish (if anyone didn't know that was where this was going to end up, you REALLY don't know me very well), am going to be burning her instrumental and orchestral versions of most of the tracks I've given her, and have gotten her intrigued in Kamelot (mentioning that they use a trained baritone and that two of their albums covered Goethe's Faust was surprisingly effective).
And so begins another chapter in my Music Whore-dom.
Oh, and I am eternally sorry for getting Valerie hooked on Khan's voice, Nightwish's music, and anything else I've gotten her hooked on.
Oh, and doubly sorry for getting Karlli hooked on all of those AND Epica.
Oh, and terribly NOT sorry for getting Duo hooked on anything and everything.
Oh, and what I'd forgotten was that I was going to tell her that I'd managed to track down the elusive Beverly Sills version of Tales of Hoffman.....Yeah, she borrowed that too....