No longer satisfied with lurking

[Benny]

Hello. I have decided to join after lurking around for about a year. This is one of the most active classical music forums. It's nice to see so much interest in great music.

[ChamberNut]

Welcome to GMG Benny!  It is a very busy and active classical music forum!  I just joined in December.  Nice to have you aboard! 

[Gurn Blanston]

Hello. I have decided to join after lurking around for about a year. This is one of the most active classical music forums. It's nice to see so much interest in great music.

Delighted you could join us, Benny. Look forward to hearing about your interests.



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[Benny]

Delighted you could join us, Benny. Look forward to hearing about your interests.



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Thanks. Liszt has been a favorite this week. I'm enjoying the symphonic poems right now. My interests? Hard to say with certainty because constant interest in a particular composer is what makes me more interested in other composers.

[Harry]

Welcome Benny, and please tell us something of yourself, and your choice of music.

[Benny]

Hello Harry. I listen to many different composers, well known and not so well known, baroque, classical, romantic, modern.... My interests are quite broad in range. For example, recent purchases include Hindemith's orchestral works, with Herbert Blomstedt, "A Gottschalk Festival," with pianist Eugene List, and Debussy's orchestral works, with Jean Martinon. Today, it's Liszt piano works (The Hungarian Rhapsodies and the Years of Pilgrimage). I guess I am most interested with music composed between 1850 and 1950 which I believe is the case of many people here.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Hello, Benny!

A sensible decision to 'uncloak' (to use a Star Trek term). Welcome!

I like Liszt's symphonic poems too - but not all of them, mind you. The later ones are less inspired, in my opinion ("Hunnenschlacht' et cetera). But 'Tasso' and 'Orpheus', 'Mazeppa' and 'Festklänge' are thrilling pieces. And the perennial favourite 'Les Préludes', of course. Liszt's Second Piano Concerto is terrific, too.

Johan

[Benny]

Hello, Benny!

A sensible decision to 'uncloak' (to use a Star Trek term). Welcome!

I like Liszt's symphonic poems too - but not all of them, mind you. The later ones are less inspired, in my opinion ("Hunnenschlacht' et cetera). But 'Tasso' and 'Orpheus', 'Mazeppa' and 'Festklänge' are thrilling pieces. And the perennial favourite 'Les Préludes', of course. Liszt's Second Piano Concerto is terrific, too.

Johan

Tasso, Orpheus and the Preludes is what I started with this morning. What do you think of his first symphonic poem, his Bergsymphonie?

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Tasso, Orpheus and the Preludes is what I started with this morning. What do you think of his first symphonic poem, his Bergsymphonie?

Excellent piece!

[Lilas Pastia]

Make yourself at home, Benny !

[Hollywood]

Greetings from Vienna, Austria Benny. Welcome aboard. 

[bhodges]

Hi Benny, welcome.  Like your avatar...is that a woodcut?  Reminds me somewhat of Lynd Ward, one of my favorite illustrators.

--Bruce

[Benny]

Hi Benny, welcome.  Like your avatar...is that a woodcut?  Reminds me somewhat of Lynd Ward, one of my favorite illustrators.

--Bruce

Now that you ask, I think choosing this avatar might not be a legal move on my part. It's :
Albert Camus
1983
Relief-block print (black and white)
12 x 9.5 in. image, plus name plate; 23 x 17-1/2 in.paper
Signed in pencil, artist's proof
Hand-printed by the artist on acid-free paper
$200.00 © The Alcorn Studio & Gallery

Is there going to be a trial, you think?
Thanks for the welcome.

[Benny]

Thing is most of these "avatars" are "subject to copyright". How did you get yours?

[bhodges]

I've not had any problems, since technically avatars are drastic alterations of the image (in most cases), i.e., much smaller than they usually are.  I doubt one would run into any copyright trouble, unless you used an image for a profit-making venture.

--Bruce

[Kullervo]

Nice to see someone else with their favorite author as their avatar.

[m_gigena]

"A Gottschalk Festival," with pianist Eugene List

One of my very first cds! I then moved to this one: