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Sandra

April 18, 2011, 06:49:05 PM
Hi everybody. Sandra from Oregon checking in. I've been browsing this forum for a while and finally decided to register and participate.
I'm a big fan of Russian composers (as well as some American and European composers)... and I spend a lot of time to listening to music.

As far as my background, I've studied some basic composition and I can play several instruments reasonably well for an amateur.

Hope to continue enjoying this site.
"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!" - J. Sibelius

knight66

#1
April 18, 2011, 09:38:41 PM
A warm welcome Sandra. I hope you enjoy yourself. Feel free to let us know what kind of music interests you.

Cheers,

Mike
DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

Hollywood

#2
April 18, 2011, 10:58:45 PM
Howdy Sandra. Greetings from Vienna, Austria. Welcome to the forum.  8)
"There are far worse things awaiting man than death."

A Hollywood born SoCal gal living in Beethoven's Heiligenstadt (Vienna, Austria).

Brahmsian

#3
April 19, 2011, 05:11:06 AM
Welcome to GMG, Sandra.

From Ray in Canada.

Scarpia

#4
April 19, 2011, 05:47:17 AM
Welcome Sandra!

karlhenning

#5
April 19, 2011, 06:23:21 AM
Welcome, Sandra! Many of us are great fans of Russian composers.

Why, there's one as my av . . . .

Brahmsian

#6
April 19, 2011, 06:25:44 AM
Also a big fan of Russian Composers, and like Karl, have one as my avatar (at least for the time being).  :D

bhodges

#7
April 19, 2011, 06:30:39 AM
Hi Sandra, and yet another fan of Russian composers here. Welcome to GMG!

--Bruce

mc ukrneal

#8
April 19, 2011, 06:35:12 AM
Welcome and enjoy!
Be kind to your fellow posters!!

Cato

#9
April 19, 2011, 06:40:29 AM
Quote from: Sandra on April 18, 2011, 06:49:05 PM

I'm a big fan of Russian composers


Well, really, who isn't?   ;D

If you do not know about them,
Sergei Taneyev and Alexander Tcherepnin should be worthy of your time!

Not to mention Karl Henning who, despite his American birth and Germanic last name, is still a kind of Ersatz Russian composer!   0:)
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Sandra

#10
April 20, 2011, 05:24:31 AM
Thanks everyone! Feels good to have a warm welcome like this.

Yes, I'd noticed the dominance of Russian music here before... that's what attracted me to this forum. But Russian I always mean the other post soviet countries as well (maybe I shouldn't). They all produced such a great number of wonderful composers! Repression must have squeezed the talents out of them. I keep discovering one gem after another.
"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!" - J. Sibelius

Mirror Image

#11
April 21, 2011, 09:42:13 PM
Quote from: Sandra on April 20, 2011, 05:24:31 AMThanks everyone! Feels good to have a warm welcome like this.

Thanks God, you're a woman. I mean with Sara (Lethe), but we need another female in this forum. Well you got a much better welcome than I did. Mine was close to this "Mirror Image? Who the hell is this loser?"

Brian

#12
April 22, 2011, 02:08:59 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on April 21, 2011, 09:42:13 PM
Well you got a much better welcome than I did. Mine was close to this "Mirror Image? Who the hell is this loser?"

Aw, man, don't be so harsh - I went back and looked after reading this, and it seems like you got a very warm welcome indeed. Until the third-from-last post, that is.  ;D

Anyway, hello Sandra, hope you enjoy the discussions as much as we do!

Mirror Image

#13
April 22, 2011, 06:52:02 PM
Quote from: Brian on April 22, 2011, 02:08:59 AM
Aw, man, don't be so harsh - I went back and looked after reading this, and it seems like you got a very warm welcome indeed. Until the third-from-last post, that is.  ;D

I know, I'm just messing around.:D

Sandra

#14
April 24, 2011, 06:02:57 PM
I do find it weird that internet forums are male dominated. There should be a scientific study explaining why. When you go to a classical music concert, you don't see less women than men. But the forum online are a different story.
"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!" - J. Sibelius

Mirror Image

#15
April 24, 2011, 06:38:05 PM
Quote from: Sandra on April 24, 2011, 06:02:57 PM
I do find it weird that internet forums are male dominated. There should be a scientific study explaining why. When you go to a classical music concert, you don't see less women than men. But the forum online are a different story.

Perhaps you can change this, Sandra? :) I would like to see you active in some of the classical discussions on the forum. For starters, how about going to the What are you listening to now? thread and post. People would really love to see what you've been listening to! :D

Sandra

#16
April 24, 2011, 09:04:16 PM
Thank you, Mirror Image!

I might just do that. :)
"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!" - J. Sibelius

david johnson

#17
April 25, 2011, 02:26:45 AM
hi!  :)

dj

nimrod

#18
May 02, 2011, 12:38:40 PM
Hi.  Welcome aboard.  I am also a big fan of Russian Composers, Prokofiev is my avatar.  Are you familiar with scale degree 3-1-4-2?  Does it sound familiar?  In the key of G minor, it is Elgar's enigma (pi).

Sandra

#19
May 07, 2011, 06:55:15 PM
Quote from: nimrod on May 02, 2011, 12:38:40 PM
Hi.  Welcome aboard.  I am also a big fan of Russian Composers, Prokofiev is my avatar.  Are you familiar with scale degree 3-1-4-2?  Does it sound familiar?  In the key of G minor, it is Elgar's enigma (pi).

I'm glad you're fascinated by that. I'd rather listen to Elgar's wonderful work without bothering with what he did for self-amusement.
"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!" - J. Sibelius
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