This forum is lousy with guys - any girls out there that listen to Classical?

[Gurn Blanston]

And pray tell me where they are a more popular subject? There are lots of fans of living composers (and obviously of [other] living musicians, too), and a few living composers, too, on this forum.

I don't know about that: I see a lot of clamoring over disk releases from guys that have been dead since I was 10...

My own preference: dead composers, living musicians. YMMV...

[North Star]

I don't know about that: I see a lot of clamoring over disk releases from guys that have been dead since I was 10...

My own preference: dead composers, living musicians. YMMV...

The only good composer is a dead composer, eh? 

[Karl Henning]

My own preference: dead composers, living musicians. YMMV...

Eek!

[Ken B]

Eek!

An odd reaction, Karl, to the sentiment "Henning will only improve as time passes."

[Gurn Blanston]

Eek!

It's OK, Karl, it's only a preference, not written in stone. Some of my favorite musicians will die one day too...

[Gurn Blanston]

An odd reaction, Karl, to the sentiment "Henning will only improve as time passes."

Wait till he's dead; he will be considered the greatest, unheralded composer of his time.

[kaergaard]

Try Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen composer of 'Musikken er et monster' played by the Kronos Quartet.

[Karl Henning]

Well, there you go:  if the Kronos Quartet play the music, the composer is no longer totally obscure.  The music has already been performed by a world-acclaimed ensemble.

This is already three notches better than my own situation 

[Karl Henning]

It's OK, Karl, it's only a preference, not written in stone.

Understood.

Still, even as a preference, it gave this composer pause     

[Ken B]

Understood.

Still, even as a preference, it gave this composer pause     

May Gurn have a long wait before he appreciates Karl!

[Karl Henning]

I understand whence that construction . . . and I thank thee.

[Gurn Blanston]

Understood.

Still, even as a preference, it gave this composer pause     

Well, incentive to practice the clarinet; I can listen to your new Mozart Concerto CD....   

[Moonfish]

I don't know about that: I see a lot of clamoring over disk releases from guys that have been dead since I was 10...

My own preference: dead composers, living musicians. YMMV...

Hmm - lots of the recordings = dead composers and dead musicians....     
Real time capsules!

[Karl Henning]

Well, incentive to practice the clarinet; I can listen to your new Mozart Concerto CD....   

I am playing this week!  Some Hennimusick Sunday morning . . . .

[Gurn Blanston]

Hmm - lots of the recordings = dead composers and dead musicians....     
Real time capsules!

Tempora mutantur... 0:)

[Moonfish]

Tempora mutantur... 0:)

Conatus...       

[Gurn Blanston]

Conatus...       

Scio...   

[Wakefield]

This is not really a music site primarily, it's a recordings site, for collectors. In other words Gordo is right. He,s not the only one to make this point, Moonfish did as well.

My teachings have been distorted!  

I don't think this is a board of mere collectors. I even dislike the word "collector" because (to me) it's almost a bad word, referred to a sort of fetishist, an accumulator of material things. On the contrary, I think this is a board of "listeners" and music lovers, a "company of dilettanti" (in the original sense of the last word), as opposed to a board of professional performers or musicians, even if here there is a good number of professional performers and composers. But even the last ones are principally listeners, when they participate here.

If this were about literature, this board would be a forum of readers, as opposed to a forum of writers or editors.

Accumulation (collectionism) is simply an accident, too much regular, but an accident. 

[amw]

I even dislike the word "collector" because (to me) it's almost a bad word, referred to a sort of fetishist, an accumulator of material things.

I think that describes most of GMG perfectly

[Karl Henning]

I don't think this is a board of mere collectors.

Agreed.  Even confining the discussion to musical activities, collector would rank low among my titles