What is currently stuck in your head?

[johnshade]

Richard Strauss said he did not want to hear Puccini again because the tunes kept playing over in his head.

[Minor Key]

Schubert's eighth, and it has been for weeks!

[EigenUser]

I have a bunch of things stuck in my head recently. Beethoven's 6th (1st movement), Schumann's 2nd (finale), Bartok solo piano sonata, Messiaen, Mahler, Bruckner, etc. Furthermore, many different melodies from various Haydn symphonies have morphed into a super-symphony.

It's like my own personal version of the 3rd movement of Berio's Sinfonia.

[EigenUser]

Currently, the scene from Ravel's L'enfant et les Sortileges where that guy jumps out of the boy's math textbook and starts yelling problems/equations at him. I'm pretty sure that has happened to me on more than one occasion. I bet Ken can relate, too.

[pjme]

Nielsen symphony nr 3 . The big waltz-like theme in the horns...

P.

[Cato]

I woke up this morning with the Andante movement from Mahler's Sixth Symphony in my head, alternating with the opening bars of the Sibelius Third Symphony.

Which reminded me that, with all the fuss recently about Sibelius here on GMG, I have been wondering about starting a "Sibelius Third Symphony: Why No Respect?" topic!  0:)

[Jo498]

Currently, the scene from Ravel's L'enfant et les Sortileges where that guy jumps out of the boy's math textbook and starts yelling problems/equations at him.

Did you know this one:

http://www.poemspoet.com/stanislaw-lem/love-and-tensor-algebra

[North Star]

Which reminded me that, with all the fuss recently about Sibelius here on GMG, I have been wondering about starting a "Sibelius Third Symphony: Why No Respect?" topic!  0:)

It certainly deserves more. Can't be easy between the emotional huffing and puffing of the adjacent symphonies.

[Mirror Image]

Which reminded me that, with all the fuss recently about Sibelius here on GMG, I have been wondering about starting a "Sibelius Third Symphony: Why No Respect?" topic!  0:)

Sibelius' 3rd is so awesome! I was just listening to it last time (probably the thousandth time I've heard it), but it's freshness and vitality never has worn off. It's certainly an underrated masterpiece amongst his symphonic oeuvre.

[André]

Sibelius' 3rd is worthy of anyone's respect. Except that it comes after two refulgent romantic compositions, and before the composer's most original symphonic compositions (4 and 5). And before the beloved lyrical 6th and saturnine dark-currents-traversed 7th. IOW it's a jovial, folk-based symphony on a very high level, unlike anything else the Master has produced (En Saga, Tapiola and Pohjola's Daughter make nice discmates).

[EigenUser]

Did you know this one:

http://www.poemspoet.com/stanislaw-lem/love-and-tensor-algebra

Oh my god, that's hilarious.

In my high school we had two calculus teachers that ended up getting in some sort of relationship (the guy was married and the woman had just recently divorced). Both were fired, not surprisingly. This poem reminds me of that.

[Jo498]

As I read through Lem's poem again, I wonder if the very last line refers to something I do not get (or if I get it right and the reference is to (spoiler) breasts. I had a certain maths/physics teacher in HS who usually asked a certain girl in class to rise as an illustration of the Latin meaning of "sinus" (impossible to believe nowadays that this did not lead to trouble for that teacher but he was very popular despite such things)

[Mirror Image]

Sibelius' 3rd is worthy of anyone's respect. Except that it comes after two refulgent romantic compositions, and before the composer's most original symphonic compositions (4 and 5). And before the beloved lyrical 6th and saturnine dark-currents-traversed 7th. IOW it's a jovial, folk-based symphony on a very high level, unlike anything else the Master has produced (En Saga, Tapiola and Pohjola's Daughter make nice discmates).

Hard to argue with this!

[kishnevi]

breasts. I had a certain maths/physics teacher in HS who usually asked a certain girl in class to rise as an illustration of the Latin meaning of "sinus" (impossible to believe nowadays that this did not lead to trouble for that teacher but he was very popular despite such things)

Thinking back to my high school days, I would say that such things were why he was popular.

[NikF]

Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D major  - and I've no idea why, because I haven't listened to it in a long time.

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D major  - and I've no idea why, because I haven't listened to it in a long time.

Not surprised, at either point 

[Karl Henning]

Richard Strauss said he did not want to hear Puccini again because the tunes kept playing over in his head.

Jealous, eh? 

[ritter]

Isn't this wonderful? It's been stuck in my head for a couple of days now (and makes me smile each time it comes back  )

https://www.youtube.com/v/7CpcO21bonI

And I must say I find this version by Sabine Devieilhe, Aimery Lefèvre and Les Ambassadeurs, conducted by Alexis Kossenko, terrfic!!!

..and here's another version (William Christie, no less, in a fun production form the Paris Opéra):

https://www.youtube.com/v/3zegtH-acXE
Forêts paisibles, forêts paisibles....!!! 

[Moonfish]

Isn't this wonderful? It's been stuck in my head for a couple of days now (and makes me smile each time it comes back  )

https://www.youtube.com/v/7CpcO21bonI

And I must say I find this version by Sabine Devieilhe, Aimery Lefèvre and Les Ambassadeurs, conducted by Alexis Kossenko, terrfic!!!

..and here's another version (William Christie, no less, in a fun production form the Paris Opéra):

https://www.youtube.com/v/3zegtH-acXE
Forêts paisibles, forêts paisibles....!!! 

Thanks, Ritter! Those very enjoyable clips made me smile and now the theme is stuck in my head!   

[ritter]

Thanks, Ritter! Those very enjoyable clips made me smile and now the theme is stuck in my head!   

You can even join in, if you want:

https://www.youtube.com/v/EQpalSSF4OA