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Uncle Connie

April 05, 2012, 05:03:36 PM
New member here.  Incompetent one apparently, as I've been trying to figure out how to enter a post for two days, and finally took a guess and got lucky.  Hopefully any future contributions from me will be less awkward.  If not, just laugh, I can take it....

Classical lover since childhood, and I'm 68 so that's a lot of loving.  Home is sunny Southern California, USA.  For me, it all starts and ends with Haydn.  Yes, I've already seen all the Gurnatron stuff and am slowly clawing through it; I can be expected to open my big mouth over there quite soon.  Other passions:  Schubert, esp. the songs; I'm a semi-pro bass-baritone and used to do Schubert recitals (to good reviews) but at this age I've had to admit reality.  (I had occasion to try just one Schubert song this past weekend - Aufenthalt, from Schwanengesang - and it was real WORK!)  Bruckner.  Mahler.  Shosty.  The oratorio as a musical form after Bach.  Half a dozen Haydn contemps. of greater or lesser reputation, but for me they're definitely greater.  (His bro, Mike, is foremost.)  I hope I didn't leave out Brahms - did I?  oops.  And just to belie the charge of being conservative, because I'm not, let's toss in Allan Pettersson and Karl-Birger Blomdahl and Karl Amadeus Hartmann. 

Because I'm still not certain this post is going to work, I do hereby shut up.  Now really, honestly, do I absolutely HAVE to tell someone that the sky is blue and Bach wrote the Brandenburgs every single time I post?   

Gurn Blanston

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April 05, 2012, 06:07:14 PM
Welcome aboard, Connie. Glad you figured it out. As you see, your first post needed to be approved (to be sure you weren't a spam-bot), but from now on it should be a piece of cake.

I look forward to talking Haydn with you when you're ready. Also, some of your other interests, like Michael Haydn and Classical Era contemporaries, would be very welcome in Gurn's Classical Corner, unless you want to start a thread on them individually.

8)



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Karl Henning

#2
April 05, 2012, 06:27:21 PM
Welcome, Connie! Great to see another Hartmann fan.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

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#3
April 05, 2012, 06:43:26 PM
Welcome to the forum! Don't be afraid to post. Don't worry we won't bite. ;) ;D

TheGSMoeller

#4
April 05, 2012, 07:13:58 PM
Greetings, and welcome!  ;D

mc ukrneal

#5
April 05, 2012, 10:08:51 PM
Welcome and have fun! Oh, and Bach? He's the guy who wrote the cantata, right?!? :)
Be kind to your fellow posters!!

Papy Oli

#6
April 05, 2012, 11:31:05 PM
Hello and welcome !
Olivier

Hollywood

#7
April 05, 2012, 11:44:35 PM
Howdy there Connie. Greetings from Schubert's Vienna. Welcome to the forum.

Whereabouts are you in SoCal? I am a native SoCal gal, born in Hollywood and grew up in Eagle Rock.
"There are far worse things awaiting man than death."

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

knight66

#8
April 06, 2012, 12:18:19 AM
Welcome: 'Aufenthalt' was the first Schubert song I learned and that was for a competition. Many others have been added since, though I am pretty silent these days. Work and earning a living don't half get in the way at times.

I hope you enjoy yourself here abouts.

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

North Star

#9
April 06, 2012, 12:27:01 AM
Welcome, Connie!
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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Wanderer

#10
April 06, 2012, 12:55:31 AM
Welcome!  8)

chasmaniac

#11
April 06, 2012, 02:25:15 AM
Cool.
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do."  --Wittgenstein, PI §217

sheffmark

#12
April 06, 2012, 02:31:24 AM
Welcome from me too! :)
Sorry for asking stupid questions!
I'm a complete novice and always will be!!


-Mark-

Lisztianwagner

#13
April 06, 2012, 02:41:32 AM
Welcome on the forum, I hope you'll have a nice time here! :)

Ilaria
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

Willoughby earl of Itacarius

#14
April 06, 2012, 03:12:27 AM
Welcome my friend, I hope you will find on this forum what you need! :)

madaboutmahler

#15
April 06, 2012, 03:23:37 AM
Hello and welcome, Connie!
Glad to see you listed Mahler as one of the composers you are passionate about! I am passionate about Mahler too, believe it or not! ;)

Hope you enjoy yourself here!

Daniel
"Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy"
— Ludwig van Beethoven

Cato

#16
April 06, 2012, 03:29:56 AM
Quote from: Uncle Connie on April 05, 2012, 05:03:36 PM
  And just to belie the charge of being conservative, because I'm not, let's toss in Allan Pettersson and Karl-Birger Blomdahl and Karl Amadeus Hartmann. 


Dude!  You're in the club!  ;D

Have you heard Birger-Blomdahl's outer space opera Aniara? 
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

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

bhodges

#17
April 06, 2012, 06:48:13 AM
Quote from: Uncle Connie on April 05, 2012, 05:03:36 PM
And just to belie the charge of being conservative, because I'm not, let's toss in Allan Pettersson and Karl-Birger Blomdahl and Karl Amadeus Hartmann. 

Welcome, Uncle Connie, and you mention quite an array of composers! Pettersson and Hartmann are fairly well known (certainly here at GMG) but I don't know Blomdahl at all.

In any case, enjoy yourself, and welcome again.

--Bruce

Cato

#18
April 06, 2012, 06:54:52 AM
Quote from: Brewski on April 06, 2012, 06:48:13 AM
Welcome, Uncle Connie, and you mention quite an array of composers! Pettersson and Hartmann are fairly well known (certainly here at GMG) but I don't know Blomdahl at all.

In any case, enjoy yourself, and welcome again.

--Bruce

Check out this excerpt of Aniara by Karl Birger-Blomdahl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DLBHLgexe0  Links to excerpts of the symphonies will show up there.
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

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

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#19
April 06, 2012, 07:01:05 AM
Quote from: madaboutmahler on April 06, 2012, 03:23:37 AMGlad to see you listed Mahler as one of the composers you are passionate about! I am passionate about Mahler too, believe it or not! ;)

Lol....too funny, Daniel. :D
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