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Started by kyjo, September 04, 2017, 11:34:08 AM

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kyjo

Hi all!

Some of you may remember me as "kyjo" from a couple years ago. Well, I'm back under a different username! I'll keep things brief. I'm a college student majoring in cello performance and I love listening to a wide variety of classical music. My primary area of interest is late-romantic and tonal 20th century music (mainly orchestral and chamber). I'm really into exploring lesser-known repertoire, and I think that the "standard repertoire" these days is ridiculously limited. My favorite "famous" composers include Rachmaninoff, Sibelius, Dvorak, Brahms, Ravel, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, and Mahler. Some lesser-known composers who I believe are deserving of much wider exposure include but are not limited to: Atterberg (hence my username ;D), Braga Santos, Hanson, Piston, Martinu, Melartin, Roussel, Englund, Arnold, Glazunov, Szymanowski, Berwald, Dohnanyi, Arnold, Raff, Rontgen, Weinberg, Enescu, Zemlinsky, Bax, Alwyn, Ginastera, Holmboe, Honegger, Andreae, Villa-Lobos, A. Merikanto, etc. Looking forward to sharing my musical discoveries with you all :)
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

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It's certainly great to have you back, Kyle! Hope to see you around these parts for some time to come. Happy posting!

André

What a great list of favourite composers! Looking forward to your contribution on the forum  :).

Hollywood

"There are far worse things awaiting man than death."

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

SymphonicAddict

It's nice to see an Atterberg fan here (included portrait). I'm very fond of those composers you mentioned, the exception is Andreae, but I do know the rest.

Sergeant Rock

Good to see you again, dude  8)

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

kishnevi



North Star

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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vandermolen

Great to have you back!
Long live Braga Santos etc!
:)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

kyjo

I decided to change my username back to kyjo for old times' sake :)
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Quote from: kyjo on September 08, 2017, 07:27:14 PM
I decided to change my username back to kyjo for old times' sake :)

Good idea. 8)

Que

Quote from: kyjo on September 08, 2017, 07:27:14 PM
I decided to change my username back to kyjo for old times' sake :)

That definitely helps.... welcome back!  :)

Q

bhodges

Hello, kyjo, and welcome back! Speaking of the cello, recently I heard Salonen's Mania (2000), performed by Jonathan Roozeman -- didn't previously know the piece or the cellist, and quite liked both.

--Bruce