Which music at your funeral?

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Tapio Dmitriyevich

October 12, 2009, 07:16:43 AM
Quote from: schweitzeralan on September 24, 2009, 05:13:19 AMI plan to have "Tapiola" played @my funeral.
Haha, interested in a new thread? Go ahead people, the day will come :D

Tapiola for funeral. Well..., I love it, but not for a funeral. I'm undecided what to choose. Hopefully I've got some 30 yrs until my funeral  8)

- The obvious, but good choice: Beethoven Eroica, Marcia Funebre
- Sibelius "In memoriam": Good one!
- Something out of the Fauré Requiem!
- Atterberg 5 Lento

- Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus "The bog", as some kind of "back to nature" theme.

I was also thinking about positive stuff.
- Sibelius Sym. No. 3, Andantino

springrite

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October 12, 2009, 07:20:28 AM
I might go for some Feldman. Either that or some celebration music. I like it either peaceful or positively energetic.
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

CD

#2
October 12, 2009, 07:22:37 AM
Quote from: springrite on October 12, 2009, 07:20:28 AM
I might go for some Feldman.

"Madame Press Died Last Week at 90" would be perfect if it weren't for the title.

I don't plan on having a funeral.

Szykneij

#3
October 12, 2009, 07:41:47 AM
Faure's "Pavane" (with or without chorus).
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

springrite

#4
October 12, 2009, 07:49:46 AM
Quote from: corey on October 12, 2009, 07:22:37 AM
"Madame Press Died Last Week at 90" would be perfect if it weren't for the title.

I don't plan on having a funeral.

I can always change the title. How about "Mr. Yin died last year at 5th and Broadway at 101"?


Considering sometimes other people insist, and it will happen regardless of your wishes, I thought it better to make sure it goes the way I prefer it.



Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Lethevich

#5
October 12, 2009, 08:07:07 AM
I've never been to a funeral - do audiences really expect to sit while lots of music plays, or would these classical-piece requests be considered tedious and unusual?

Anyway, my answer is hopfully: Arvo Pärt – Sarah Was Ninety Years Old.
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

vandermolen

#6
October 12, 2009, 08:15:05 AM
Vaughan Williams 'Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus' (if it was good enough for him it is good enough for me  ;D)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

matti

#7
October 12, 2009, 08:15:51 AM
Strauss: Beim Schlafengehen.

DavidW

#8
October 12, 2009, 08:21:51 AM
I'll be dead, what do I care? :D

Lethevich

#9
October 12, 2009, 08:23:13 AM
Quote from: DavidW on October 12, 2009, 08:21:51 AM
I'll be dead, what do I care? :D

Even better - you won't have to deal with the fallout of having made a room full of people listen to an entire Bruckner symphony 0:)
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

springrite

#10
October 12, 2009, 08:25:09 AM
Quote from: DavidW on October 12, 2009, 08:21:51 AM
I'll be dead, what do I care? :D

I am sure there is a song of that title...


Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Szykneij

#11
October 12, 2009, 08:27:00 AM
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

#12
October 12, 2009, 08:29:02 AM
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Tapio Dmitriyevich

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October 12, 2009, 08:50:24 AM Last Edit: October 12, 2009, 08:52:57 AM by Wurstwasser
Quote from: Lethe on October 12, 2009, 08:07:07 AMI've never been to a funeral - do audiences really expect to sit while lots of music plays, or would these classical-piece requests be considered tedious and unusual?
As not-too-loud music in the background it's not so unusual. "Waiting music", while people come in and before the pastor speaches. I've been at two funerals where its been done that way. One with Faure Requiem Introitus/Kyrie and the other I forgot. Oh, we're worldwide... I'm talking about christian funerals in western europe.
A friend of mine died at 37.. He wanted to have a Dire Straits track played, it lasted 6 Minutes, and it felt like hours. I think it was boring for a majority of the audience.

Szykneij

#14
October 12, 2009, 08:54:14 AM
Quote from: Wurstwasser on October 12, 2009, 08:50:24 AM
As not-too-loud music in the background it's not so unusual. "Waiting music", while people come in and before the pastor speaches. I've been at two funerals where its been done that way. One with Faure Requiem Introitus/Kyrie and the other I forgot. Oh, we're worldwide... I'm talking about christian funerals in western europe.
A friend of mine died at 37.. He wanted to have a Dire Straits track played, it lasted 6 Minutes, and it felt like hours. I think it was boring for a majority of the audience.

Lady writer on the tv
Talk about the Virgin Mary?
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

DavidW

#15
October 12, 2009, 08:59:40 AM
Quote from: Szykniej on October 12, 2009, 08:54:14 AM
Lady writer on the tv
Talk about the Virgin Mary?


Hey that's one of my favorite songs!  Oh man and Romeo and Juliet... man I need to pull out my Dire Straits cds... :)

Joe Barron

#16
October 12, 2009, 02:03:21 PM
Quote from: DavidW on October 12, 2009, 08:21:51 AM
I'll be dead, what do I care? :D

Agreed, but I have decided that Haydn's piano sonatas are the music I want to hear on my deathbed.

greg

#17
October 12, 2009, 02:30:52 PM
The first movement of Shostakovich's 9th symphony. That will people won't cry, but laugh, and it won't be so cliched.  ::)

Wendell_E

#18
October 13, 2009, 03:10:04 AM
The Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus from Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps would be nice, but I'm an atheist, so we'll have to do something about the title.  Finale, perhaps.
"Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." ― Mark Twain

snyprrr

#19
October 13, 2009, 09:12:06 AM
Funny, you're an atheist,... you're dead,... and you care?



As for me, it's the reason I got into classical music... Elliott Carter Elegy

If that isn't the perfect SQ/funeral parlour environment, I don't know what is.,... btw- the Arditti/Etcetera version is to be preferred.
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