You should have seen my 3-year-old's face recently when we got a new CD player for the kitchen and I pulled out my CD and started singing along at the top of my lungs. German is just so much fun to bellow. SEID UMSCHLUNGEN MILLIONEN! DIESEN KUSS DER GANZEN WELT! "Uh, mom...?" *child backing away slowly*
yeah...anyway...so I sang in the choir for that one when I was in college, and it was teh awesome.
Everyone should represent to Ode to Joy. And that's regardless of how many of them have seen A Clockwork Orange. ;-)
The whole symphony is just amazing. The instrumental parts are good. The vocal parts are good. The fast parts are good. The slow parts are good. Each movement by itself, to me, could stand alone as a solid piece of music. All of them together makes about 70 minutes of kickass.
And I do agree, Beethoven's 5th is even more powerful in a way. But it's the chorale of the 9th that gives it that microscopic edge over the 5th, for me. Heck, throw in the 6th and the 1st, and it's a tough call for third place.
I have heard Beethoven's 9th from third row center at Avery Fisher Hall. Holee Crap! That was amazing.
On a vaugely related note, the Philharmonic are doing both Beethoven's 5th and Mozart's Requiem (not on the same night) in October. I don't know if individual tix are available for the Requiem--it doesn't seem so, but the website sucks. Despite my current feeling of "I don't want to give the Philharmonic any more money until they join the 21st century," I would be willing to go to those. You want me to look into it?
Twisted Sister = Metal!?!?!? OH, you have so much to learn. There's wrong with "I Wanna Rock", I, myself, play this song in my head whenever I go snowboarding. Yes it usually means I try to go down the hill faster, which then translates into me going down the hill faster on my butt, but whatever. I feel pretty bad-ass while I"m doing it, which is all that matters.
Hmmmm... interesting earwormjump there. Usually after thinking of Ode to Joy for a bit I start remembering how awesome the movie "Die Hard" is and I start jonesing for Bruce Willis to kick ass.
Surprisingly, no. I caught it before I started working at the UN. I would have guessed that too. And the UN was pretty hesitant about hiring me once they saw that on my medical record. TB makes other countries nervous.
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You should have seen my 3-year-old's face recently when we got a new CD player for the kitchen and I pulled out my CD and started singing along at the top of my lungs. German is just so much fun to bellow. SEID UMSCHLUNGEN MILLIONEN! DIESEN KUSS DER GANZEN WELT! "Uh, mom...?" *child backing away slowly*
yeah...anyway...so I sang in the choir for that one when I was in college, and it was teh awesome.
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The whole symphony is just amazing. The instrumental parts are good. The vocal parts are good. The fast parts are good. The slow parts are good. Each movement by itself, to me, could stand alone as a solid piece of music. All of them together makes about 70 minutes of kickass.
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Laufet, Bruder! :P
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And I do agree, Beethoven's 5th is even more powerful in a way. But it's the chorale of the 9th that gives it that microscopic edge over the 5th, for me. Heck, throw in the 6th and the 1st, and it's a tough call for third place.
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On a vaugely related note, the Philharmonic are doing both Beethoven's 5th and Mozart's Requiem (not on the same night) in October. I don't know if individual tix are available for the Requiem--it doesn't seem so, but the website sucks. Despite my current feeling of "I don't want to give the Philharmonic any more money until they join the 21st century," I would be willing to go to those. You want me to look into it?
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