Stupid Thread Ideas

[Mahlerian]

What are you doing outside of GMG right now?

[aligreto]

Life without GMG

[vandermolen]

What are you not listening to now?

[aligreto]

Sunbathing at night

[zamyrabyrd]

What is your cat or dog doing right now?

[aligreto]

Counting falling snowflakes

[Sydney Nova Scotia]

dividing snowflakes into raindrops

[vandermolen]

Objects that you have tripped over or bumbled into (alternative title 'The dumb hostility of inanimate objects')

[aligreto]

Things fighting back

[Karl Henning]

Your worst Schoenberg purchase of 2018

[aligreto]

Walking backwards into trouble

[Florestan]

Your worst Schoenberg purchase of 2018

Stupid indeed, I've never purchased a Schoenberg recording in my whole life. 

[zamyrabyrd]

Stupid indeed, I've never purchased a Schoenberg recording in my whole life. 

Not even Verklärte Nacht?

[Florestan]

Not even Verklärte Nacht?

Why should I buy it? Youtube is my friend. 

[zamyrabyrd]

Why should I buy it? Youtube is my friend. 

I do worry about a possible, maybe even probable, communications cataclysm, like a Droid or huge King Kong pulling out the plugs of our civilization with his big hairy hands.

[Florestan]

I do worry about a possible, maybe even probable, communications cataclysm, like a Droid or huge King Kong pulling out the plugs of our civilization with his big hairy hands.

In this case what difference would a physical recording make? 

However, I do see where you're coming from. We are spoilt for choice but sometimes I wonder whether our ancestors, who did not own a single recording of anything and who heard nothing but live music, played either by themselves or by a close relative or friend or in a concert, did not have a more profound and existentially meaningful relationship with music...

We routinely analyze and compare 50 different recordings of, say, a Mozart opera or a Beethoven piano sonata  --- but imagine, if you can, those times when hearing them was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

[Karl Henning]

Stupid indeed, I've never purchased a Schoenberg recording in my whole life. 

When this idle thought crossed my mind, in fact it did so with the name of another composer. However I felt there was no need to provoke the enthusiasts of that composer, so I nominated instead of composer whom I enjoy and admire.

You didn't listen to the Weihnachtsmusik, mon cher?

[Florestan]

You didn't listen to the Weihnachtsmusik, mon cher?

I confess I didn't, Karl, but I somehow have a feeling that I should rectify it asap, it probably being one of Schoenberg's most romantic / melodic pieces, right?

And most imprtantly: congratulations for your speedy recovery!

[zamyrabyrd]

In this case what difference would a physical recording make? 

We might have to build up civilization from the ruins. So much of classical literature and plays were lost in the fires of the Alexandrian library, which apparently happened several times.

[Florestan]

We might have to build up civilization from the ruins. So much of classical literature and plays were lost in the fires of the Alexandrian library, which apparently happened several times.

If and when electricity did go off for (a) good (many decades), printed scores and musical instruments would be much more helpful than CDs in building up our civilization anew.