I am to Classical Music:

Started by karlhenning, May 10, 2011, 11:52:28 AM

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What am I in relation to the art? (select as many as apply)

Singer
Instrumentalist
Appliantist (performer)
Conductor
Musicologist
Amateur enthusiast of music history
A daily listener
A weekly listener
Composer
Air conductor
Air guitarist
Air cellist
Banana

karlhenning

Quote from: Szykneij on May 11, 2011, 02:24:37 AM
Instrumentalist, daily listener, and banana were my answers. There were no teacher or airhead options for me to choose.

Ach, another honest oversight . . . .

karlhenning

My own votes (of an unimpeachable integrity) are: singer, instrumentalist, conductor, daily listener, composer & banana.

Cato

"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

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

Grazioso

(Almost) daily listener, (amateur) instrumentalist, pointed stick banana.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

eyeresist


Brahmsian

I chose 4 options:

Amateur enthusiast of music history
A daily listener
Air Conductor
Air Cellist

:)

Sid

Amateur enthusiast of music history
Daily listener
(Ocassional) air conductor - esp. with very rhythmic & pumped up music...

Mirror Image

Quote from: Sid on May 11, 2011, 08:45:28 PM
(Ocassional) air conductor - esp. with very rhythmic & pumped up music...

Like?

Brahmsian

Quote from: Mirror Image on May 11, 2011, 08:48:46 PM
Like?

For me anyway, Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Festival Overture always gets me doing some major 'air conducting'.

or Mendelssohn's 5th Symphony.

Mirror Image

Quote from: ChamberNut on May 11, 2011, 08:51:00 PM
For me anyway, Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Festival Overture always gets me doing some major 'air conducting'.

or Mendelssohn's 5th Symphony.

Well I tend to "air conduct" quite often, especially if it's a very hushed, melodic section. But as far as the rhythmic stuff, I always seem to do Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin, Stravinsky's Jeu de cartes, or Villa-Lobos' Genesis, especially the Villa-Lobos as there's this section in this ballet where music absolutely cuts loose with a primal rage.

Brahmsian

Quote from: Mirror Image on May 11, 2011, 09:03:20 PM
Well I tend to "air conduct" quite often, especially if it's a very hushed, melodic section. But as far as the rhythmic stuff, I always seem to do Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin, Stravinsky's Jeu de cartes, or Villa-Lobos' Genesis, especially the Villa-Lobos as there's this section in this ballet where music absolutely cuts loose with a primal rage.

Right, I tend to air conduct during the hushed moments, just as much as the high energy rhythmic sections.   :)

I really love to air conduct the beginning of the 2nd movement of Tchaikovsky's 5th.  :)

Sid

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Quote from: Mirror Image on May 11, 2011, 08:48:46 PM
Like?

Lately it's been things like Monteverdi's Vespers & Beethoven's late quartets. But these pieces are difficult to air-conduct because there's a lot of rhythmic changes that go on, so you have to be alert in order to do a "good job."  :P

The last time I air-conducted intensively was with thousands of other people :o . I was at an open air concert in summer of Shakespearean classics - Mendelssohn, Walton, Nicolai, Prokofiev. & to top it all off, the traditional symphony under the stars ending, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture - can anyone resist air-conducting that, I ask? It was kind of liberating to do this. I'll probably go again next year just to air-conduct like that again. A friend of mine came, but I don't remember him air-conducting, he was doing funny accents - German for the Mendelssohn, Russian for the Prokofiev, etc. We were drinking a bottle of wine during the performance, you see...

starrynight

With some lively music (not just classical) I don't think I can really just sit down, somehow it would feel too constricted.

Grazioso

Quote from: starrynight on May 12, 2011, 12:20:30 AM
With some lively music (not just classical) I don't think I can really just sit down, somehow it would feel too constricted.

Good music should physically move you. I want to cry when I see a classical concert audience all seated neatly in their rows, as unmoving as the dead.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

karlhenning

Quote from: Grazioso on May 12, 2011, 04:45:13 AM
Good music should physically move you. I want to cry when I see a classical concert audience all seated neatly in their rows, as unmoving as the dead.

Well, move you isn't quite the "gotta dance" question.

And, why need people wear how they are moved like a message on a T-shirt?
; )

Florestan

Daily listener, air conductor, amateur enthusiast of music history.

I don't see the "air pianist" option though.  ;D
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. ." — Claude Debussy

DavidW


Tapio Dmitriyevich

air conductor, daily listener and instrumentalist.

a) When will we see an air conducting subforum?
b) Is air conducting causing tornados?

Opus106

Quote from: ChamberNut on May 11, 2011, 06:14:35 PM
I chose 4 options:

Amateur enthusiast of music history

I really wanted to choose that, but I'd be fooling myself if I did.

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A daily listener
Air Conductor
Air Cellist
:)

These three, I chose. But I must add that I'm a better air violinist, having learnt to play the basics about 15 years ago, than an air cellist.
Regards,
Navneeth

Tapio Dmitriyevich

Ooh, there must be significant differences in air Cello/Violin/viola playing.