Who are or have been the members you have had more sympathy and empathy on here?

[Symphonic Addict]

... whether just about tastes or just 'connection', you feel are more decent and sincere on this forum?

Aligreto
Andrei
André
Cato
Christo
Cilgwyn
John (Mirror Image)
Karl Henning
Kyle
Vandermolen

This doesn't pretend to be anything offensive or polemic or impolite. Just for fun.

[Daverz]

I don't think we should personalize things so much.

[Ratliff]

... whether just about tastes or just 'connection', you feel are more decent and sincere on this forum?

Aligreto
Andrei
André
Cato
Christo
Cilgwyn
John (Mirror Image)
Karl Henning
Kyle
Vandermolen

This doesn't pretend to be anything offensive or polemic or impolite. Just for fun.

You chose to insult me by omitting me from your list.

[steve ridgway]

Now I'm going to go out of my way not to listen to these .

My absolute top 3:

Nielsen
Brahms
Shostakovich


The remaining 7:

Beethoven
Martinu
Strauss
Arnold
Lutoslawski
Janacek
Mozart

[Herman]

yeah, this looks like a fun, empathetic idea

[Gurn Blanston]

yeah, this looks like a fun, empathetic idea

  I suspect it is horribly misbegotten, but we'll see. I don't want to seem lacking in sympathy or empathy and thus miss out on a nomination... 

[mc ukrneal]

It's rabbit season. Shoot me now!

[Mirror Image]

... whether just about tastes or just 'connection', you feel are more decent and sincere on this forum?

Aligreto
Andrei
André
Cato
Christo
Cilgwyn
John (Mirror Image)
Karl Henning
Kyle
Vandermolen

This doesn't pretend to be anything offensive or polemic or impolite. Just for fun.

Thank you very much, Cesar. I feel the same way about you. I'm honored to share your list with those other members. I really enjoy talking to most members here or, at least, those that can tolerate my misguided or ill-founded opinions.

[j winter]

It's rabbit season. Shoot me now!

[vandermolen]

I don't know if anyone else has had this experience but almost without fail, just after I have posted all my Christmas cards the first one I receive is from someone I have forgotten to send one to! There are a great number of members here whom I like to think I have made a genuine contact with and I have also been the recipient of great kindness, friendship and generosity (you know who you are). I would include everyone on Cesar's list and many more beside. I worry that if I did my own list I would forget someone and that wouldn't be right at all. I will say that I have even had the pleasure (and it was a pleasure) of meeting some members 'for real' especially when my daughter was 'studying' for a year in Leiden, Netherlands but also at the famous performance of Havergal Brian's 'Gothic Symphony' in London. I have also received kind communications from people who don't share my musical tastes at all, although it puzzles me how anyone cannot appreciate the music, for example, of Miaskovsky, Klaus Egge and Ippolitov-Ivanov  .
So thanks to all of those who have communicated and made contact with me whether in cyber-space or in real life. It has become a very important part of my life, notwithstanding being constantly bombarded with accusations of 'wasting time on the computer' etcetc.

[Mirror Image]

I don't know if anyone else has had this experience but almost without fail, just after I have posted all my Christmas cards the first one I receive is from someone I have forgotten to send one to! There are a great number of members here whom I like to think I have made a genuine contact with and I have also been the recipient of great kindness, friendship and generosity (you know who you are). I would include everyone on Cesar's list and many more beside. I worry that if I did my own list I would forget someone and that wouldn't be right at all. I will say that I have even had the pleasure (and it was a pleasure) of meeting some members 'for real' especially when my daughter was 'studying' for a year in Leiden, Netherlands but also at the famous performance of Havergal Brian's 'Gothic Symphony' in London. I have also received kind communications from people who don't share my musical tastes at all, although it puzzles me how anyone cannot appreciate the music, for example, of Miaskovsky, Klaus Egge and Ippolitov-Ivanov  .
So thanks to all of those who have communicated and made contact with me whether in cyber-space or in real life. It has become a very important part of my life, notwithstanding being constantly bombarded with accusations of 'wasting time on the computer' etcetc.

Well, I for one, am grateful for your friendship, Jeffrey. You and I do have pretty different tastes, but we do like many of the same composers as well. If I'm ever in London, you'll definitely be someone I will get in contact with. Like you, I'm thankful for many of the members here and all of you know who you are as well. Karl Henning was someone on GMG, however, that I felt I must establish a connection with in order to get along with everyone else here. Does this make sense? It also helps when we like a lot of the same music. Another member here who I feel established another connection with, especially over the past two years or so was Rafael (ritter). Our tastes don't exactly line up per se, but our love for Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, and his insightful commentary about Enescu have opened doors I didn't know even know existed. Another member who I would've liked to establish a connection with was Luke, but it seems he won't be back and if he does come back, it will be only temporary. And, finally, I still lament the departure of Dancing Divertimentian. I feel he was another 'Debussy brother' that helped in cementing my love for this composer. Anyway, I'm done rambling now.

[Marc]

I love ye all.

[vandermolen]

Well, I for one, am grateful for your friendship, Jeffrey. You and I do have pretty different tastes, but we do like many of the same composers as well. If I'm ever in London, you'll definitely be someone I will get in contact with. Like you, I'm thankful for many of the members here and all of you know who you are as well. Karl Henning was someone on GMG, however, that I felt I must establish a connection with in order to get along with everyone else here. Does this make sense? It also helps when we like a lot of the same music. Another member here who I feel established another connection with, especially over the past two years or so was Rafael (ritter). Our tastes don't exactly line up per se, but our love for Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, and his insightful commentary about Enescu have opened doors I didn't know even know existed. Another member who I would've liked to establish a connection with was Luke, but it seems he won't be back and if he does come back, it will be only temporary. And, finally, I still lament the departure of Dancing Divertimentian. I feel he was another 'Debussy brother' that helped in cementing my love for this composer. Anyway, I'm done rambling now.

See you in London John! 

[Irons]

... whether just about tastes or just 'connection', you feel are more decent and sincere on this forum?

Aligreto
Andrei
André
Cato
Christo
Cilgwyn
John (Mirror Image)
Karl Henning
Kyle
Vandermolen

This doesn't pretend to be anything offensive or polemic or impolite. Just for fun.

Well, I'm not on the list and not for one moment would I think I would be. But not first time, and not just here by any means, it feels like returning to the school playground and for me that is a very long time ago.

[prémont]

I love ye all.

[vandermolen]

Well, I'm not on the list and not for one moment would I think I would be. But not first time, and not just here by any means, it feels like returning to the school playground and for me that is a very long time ago.

Well, you're certainly on my list Lol! Your perceptive 'school playground' comment is exactly the reason why I was reluctant to provide my own list.

[Ratliff]

Well, you're certainly on my list Lol! Your perceptive 'school playground' comment is exactly the reason why I was reluctant to provide my own list.

To be honest, this thread brings up my main dissatisfaction with this site, that it is dominated by cliques of members who effusively praise every little thing posted by their circle of pals, but who don't bother with comments made outside their cozy little circle. On the listening thread I put a brief review of a recording of John Ireland's Legend for piano and orchestra. I noticed that the Ireland thread begins with you citing Legends as one of your favorite works by Ireland, with discussions of which recordings are best. If one of you pals had mentioned the piece I'm sure you'd have your thesaurus out searching for laudatory adjectives to shower on the post. But my comment is not worth noticing, of course.

This is why I have chosen another classical discussion board as my primary destination for discussion of music.

[Mirror Image]

To be honest, this thread brings up my main dissatisfaction with this site, that it is dominated by cliques of members who effusively praise every little thing posted by their circle of pals, but who don't bother with comments made outside their cozy little circle. On the listening thread I put a brief review of a recording of John Ireland's Legend for piano and orchestra. I noticed that the Ireland thread begins with you citing Legends as one of your favorite works by Ireland, with discussions of which recordings are best. If one of you pals had mentioned the piece I'm sure you'd have your thesaurus out searching for laudatory adjectives to shower on the post. But my comment is not worth noticing, of course.

This is why I have chosen another classical discussion board as my primary destination for discussion of music.

I like to think of GMG as a small knit community of listeners. I have never subscribed to an 'inner circle' of anything. I post and comment as I please as I would hope every member here does. I think, while SymphonicAddict, Christo, Vandermolen, Kyjo, etc. does form a group of listeners with specified tastes, I don't think it's fair to single any of them out just because they didn't comment on your post. If I liked Ireland's music, I probably would have mentioned something given your thoughtful post, but you must realize just as every other member should realize, not everything goes noticed by every member nor does each member feel compelled to comment each time the another member posts something. To be even more honest, there is no other forum on the internet that has this kind of community of knowledgeable members. Some of these classical forums are littered with so many members that it's difficult to keep track of who is who, whereas, on the other hand, another forum will barely have 10 active members and only has 4-5 posts in a day. GMG is a happy medium between those two extremes.

[vandermolen]

To be honest, this thread brings up my main dissatisfaction with this site, that it is dominated by cliques of members who effusively praise every little thing posted by their circle of pals, but who don't bother with comments made outside their cozy little circle. On the listening thread I put a brief review of a recording of John Ireland's Legend for piano and orchestra. I noticed that the Ireland thread begins with you citing Legends as one of your favorite works by Ireland, with discussions of which recordings are best. If one of you pals had mentioned the piece I'm sure you'd have your thesaurus out searching for laudatory adjectives to shower on the post. But my comment is not worth noticing, of course.

This is why I have chosen another classical discussion board as my primary destination for discussion of music.

Firstly I'm  sorry that you feel like this and secondly I'm sorry that I did not comment on your reference to John Ireland's excellent 'Legend for Piano and Orchestra' which I prefer to his PC. My favourite recordings, incidentally, are on Chandos and Hyperion.

I would, however, like to gently challenge your 'clique of members' comment. I think that it is much more a case of people who share my musical tastes. I would never deliberately not respond to a message just because didn't come from one of my 'inner circle'. I've communicated with many here (including on the Haydn thread!) often I don't think that I've got much to offer because I'm either unfamiliar with the music or it doesn't mean much to me. Furthermore, although I really enjoy communicating with the group I also have other demands on my time which might mean that I miss a post that I might otherwise respond to. There is nothing deliberate about this. If you track back through the WAYLT thread I suspect that you will find that if someone is listening to a piece of music that I like I will comment on it regardless of who the message is from. My taste in classical music is not necessarily shared by others ('deservedly neglected composers' as my brother amusingly put it) and I naturally have more in common (musically) with those who share my musical tastes than those who do not. I'm sorry if you decide to leave the group but that will be your decision.

[Herman]

The downside of posting is one expects people to share your enthusiasm in that moment, and that doesn't always happen. That's just life online.