Classical Music

RedhorseWoman

Last weekend I was enjoying a Sarah McLachlan marathon, this weekend it was Kenny Wayne Shepherd and any other blues/rock I could locate.

While indulging in the music that I love, I started thinking about the "gold old JW days", and I remembered listening to the Rite of Spring by Stravinsky, as well as many other classical works when I was younger.

I was transported to a magical, mythical place, and I would frequently put together my own dance routines to accompany the music (since I wasn't allowed to go to dance class).

Then came the "warnings" from Brooklyn about the pagan themes surrounding many classical works. The Rite of Spring was specifically mentioned as one that could turn the good JW into a foaming, demon-inhabited monster.

Destroyers of dreams, creators of the mundane--how could I have allowed them to strip my life of all the beautiful things?

alias

RHW,
Indulge yourself! Isn't it funny how many of the things we used to find enjoyment in would somehow end up getting a negative slant from the society and show up in a WT article?

Enjoy life!

Alia

mommy

RHW,
I remember childhood dreams of becoming a dancer. Obsessed I think is the right word for it. I always dreamed of being a ballerina gliding and flying all over the stage. I will give my mom credit she did something for me I will never forget.
She worked the night shift and I only saw her for a few hours before she went to work, well one night she worked and the next day she woke up after only a few hours of sleeping. She woke up and called me in her room, then she told me she had bought tickets to the ballet show that was in town, it was a matinee.
My heart leaped for joy I would finally see in real life my obsession. It wasn't until later in life I relized how hard it must have been for her the show was almost 3 hours long and she had to go to work that night. So I know she had almost no sleep at all for over 24 hours.
No as a jw I could never attend dance class because of the rules. I also couldn't listen to my heavy metal either. The funny thing is alot of country songs are worse than heavy metal. Well at least this has taught me to listen to all types of music
Anyway, sorry I did go a little off subject. Play your music and play it loud let the rhythm flow throug your body and enjoy the pure wonder of sound
wendy

Seven

Dear Red, They were never able to rob you of your imagination, your creativity or your soul. Somehow you hung on to that. What a truly amazing and talented woman you are. It's you that makes your surroundings more beautiful. Alia told you to enjoy life! Pull out all the stops and don't ever look back. *hugs*

Seven

They'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty-before the last revolving year is through. And the seasons they go round and round. And the painted ponies go up and down. We're captive on the carousel of time. We can't return we can only look behind from where we came. And go round and round and round in the circle game.Joni Mitchell

RedhorseWoman

Seven, Mommy, Alia,

Thanks for your input. I'm making up for lost time, oh yes. Today I was doing some pretty serious boogying to the blues...as well as singing at the top of my lungs. Did you know that most cats really don't like to dance? They think I'm insane when I waltz them around the room. LOL

And all this talk about Joni Mitchell makes me want to go on a "folk" marathon...Joni, Joan Baez, Gordon Bok, et al....tomorrow is another day.

philo

RHW

I went through a Wagner stage. No, not that W.a.g.n.e.r

anyway, if I could just continue, my mother in law (a dub) told me off for all the demonic themes in his music. So I played her the ride of the valkyries and said "Sounds just like Armageddon, don't you think?"

philo

thinkers wife

RHW,
Too cool!! Thinker and I love the blues and just about everything else under the sun. Thank God, I never let the Society rule my music. And giving my parents credit where credit is due, they introduced us to all kinds of music growing up!!
Didn't know anyone else here listened to Kenny Wayne Shepherd. He is a great. We love Sarah too!! Get yourself some Natalie Merchant. She has a song called Jezebel that I absolutely love.
Do let the waves roll over you and encompass you!! Music is like love and cooking, it should be enjoyed regularly and with reckless abandon.
Stole that from the Dalai Lama.
ENJOY!!!!!
TW

Edited by - thinkers wife on 25 February 2001 7:52:17

Prisca

My favourite classic composers are Beethoven and Mozart. I love the intellectualism behind Beethoven's work, yet also I love the light-heartedness that Mozart displayed. They, as well as the many other classical composers, wrote music that truly touches the soul, and brings pleasure to millions, centuries after their deaths.

larc

I like Handel's Water Music - very peaceful. Most people know Bethhoven's 5th symphoney the best. I like the 9th more - very majestic. I also like Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. Handel's Messiah at Christmas and Easter is wonderful, not just the Halelujah chorus, but the whole thing.

Seven

Red, Thanks for starting this thread. I am so into opera-one of the things my mother and I will always have in common(I know she still indulges).Flashback-early childhood.My mom and I would be home alone on a humid summer evening-no breeze at all. We'd open the French Doors from the dining room out onto the patio. I'd go out and set up the cribbage board and she'd bring the ice tea. But not before turning the stereo up to maximum warp-Carmen, La Boheme, Don Giovanni. All on reel-to-reel, which I was forbidden to touch. lol We'd play cards while she answered my questions as to what these songs were about and why weren't they in English. Now many, many years later I paint to this music. It touches my soul. One of my favorites is Delibes' Lakme(a Brit officer & a Brahmin priest's daughter in India-19thc.) I love the "Flower duet." If you want to hear a snippet, http://www.azopera.com/96season/l_syn.php3

seven

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