How much of your listening is guided by other GMG members?

[karlhenning]

Was it Giob which inspired Mozart to blurt out, "Dogshit! Dried dogshit! Not one interesting modulation in the entire opera" . . . ?

That was quite an impression, eh?

[Don]

I voted "small proportion".  There are times when the mention of a particular composer or work induces me to go out and buy a disc or listen to one I already have.  Fortunately, that's not often.  I buy a great deal just on my own initiative.

[BachQ]

How does the category "Some of it" differ from the category "A small proportion of it" ?

[Lady Chatterley]

How does the category "Some of it" differ from the category "A small proportion of it" ?

Same as above.

[longears]

How does the category "Some of it" differ from the category "A small proportion of it" ?

"Some" means more than none, up to and including all.  "A small proportion of it" is more than none but less than half.

[Renfield]

"Some" means more than none, up to and including all.  "A small proportion of it" is more than none but less than half.

How immediately evident it is when someone is conversant with logic. Always a pleasant thing to note.

(With apologies for the off-topic comment.)

[Lilas Pastia]

Generally speaking, I should answer 'a good proportion' - but considering my past 12 months listening habits, I voted 'most of it'. What, with downloads galore from Maciek, Manuel and private mails from other posters whose identity is protected by the Secrecy Act, I've been deluged under tons of stuff I'd never have considered before. And I'm all the happier for it .  THANK YOU GMG! 

[BachQ]

"Some" means more than none, up to and including all.  "A small proportion of it" is more than none but less than half.

What's the difference between "A small proportion of it" and "Almost none of it" ?

[Catison]

What's the difference between "A small proportion of it" and "Almost none of it" ?

A little bit.

[max]

How much of your listening is guided by other GMG members?

Zilch-zero/nada.

[max]

In that case I have yet to understand the genius of Mozart's operas. Everytime I try to listen to them I get bored. It's very difficult to get any grasp of them. Only few minutes of the operas sound interesting.

...I can't believe this statement, as much as I admire Elgar and more than happy to give Dittersdorf his due. Stravinsky I don't like. To me he sounds like some dude with a monkey on his shoulder dictating the music. But that's got nothing to do with Stravinsky. It's entirely due to my own limitations like some people who are tone deaf to Wagner for instance!

[max]

What's the difference between "A small proportion of it" and "Almost none of it" ?

...I can almost visualize a ballet of Angels dancing on a pin performed by a chamber orchestra not of this world!

[Mark]

How does the category "Some of it" differ from the category "A small proportion of it" ?

'Some of it' means a small-to-medium-sized amount, whereas 'Almost none of it' means a very small amount indeed.

[karlhenning]

...I can't believe this statement, as much as I admire Elgar and more than happy to give Dittersdorf his due. Stravinsky I don't like. To me he sounds like some dude with a monkey on his shoulder dictating the music. But that's got nothing to do with Stravinsky. It's entirely due to my own limitations . . . .

I applaud your frank, manly statement, notwithstanding my own fervent admiration for Stravinsky 

[71 dB]

...I can't believe this statement, as much as I admire Elgar and more than happy to give Dittersdorf his due. Stravinsky I don't like. To me he sounds like some dude with a monkey on his shoulder dictating the music. But that's got nothing to do with Stravinsky. It's entirely due to my own limitations like some people who are tone deaf to Wagner for instance!

I find most music by Mozart wonderful to my ears. His violin concertos are undervalued imo and there are "unknown" treasures like the Litanies. His operas however have always been problematic to me. The music seems structurally simple (boring) and the music/singing is even annoying occasionally. The only logical explanation is that Mozart wrote simplified music for the operas in order to "entertain" people. Most people find difficult things less entertaining.

I haven't explored Stravinsky much but what I have (Symphony in C, Symphony in Three Movements, Symphonies of Wind Instruments) sound interesting. He was clearly very innovative orchestrator.

Wagner I do like but his music a bit heavy and stiff. Elgar has everything Wagner has in his music but does everything better and has the light, playful side too.

[karlhenning]

The music seems structurally simple (boring) and the music/singing is even annoying occasionally. The only logical explanation is that Mozart wrote simplified music for the operas in order to "entertain" people.

As John Cleese asked of Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda: Poju, are you totally deranged?

[longears]

Duh!  How much evidence do you need?  Feeble-mindedness cannot account for it all.  When feeling charitable, I suspect something organic and try to make extreme allowances.  Otherwise I suspect a peculiar sort of troll getting kicks out of others' reactions. 

[Catison]

Wagner I do like but his music a bit heavy and stiff. Elgar has everything Wagner has in his music but does everything better and has the light, playful side too.

This statement registers a 7 on the "huh"-o-meter.  That's a "huuuuuuuuuh?"

[Larry Rinkel]

Are you really saying the scholars and musicians who say Dittersdorf is unjustingly forgotten are simply wrong and his oratorio "Giob" (a work that made a strong impression to Mozart) is a worthless work?

Give me one example of a scholar who say Dittersdorf is unjustingly forgotten. I have a copy of Dittersdorf's Giob, and I'm not impressed.

[71 dB]

Give me one example of a scholar who say Dittersdorf is unjustingly forgotten. I have a copy of Dittersdorf's Giob, and I'm not impressed.

If you have the CPO recording you can read it in the liner notes. I don't know why you are not impressed. I am.