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bhodges

#60
April 05, 2008, 09:43:16 AM
Ives was a possibility for me, too.  But now I may have another choice.  Just yesterday I found this list of Schnittke's works and I may have to pick him.  Part of my logic: a composer with a lot of works I haven't heard means becoming acquainted with lots of new pieces, the better to kill lots of time on that island.  ;)

--Bruce

ChamberNut

#61
April 05, 2008, 12:05:50 PM
Although I would have to say Beethoven, I just can't imagine never hearing Brahms wonderful music ever again.    :(  Brahms did not many (if any) weak compositions, not from what I've heard so far.

I could do without Burl Ives.  :D

Sergeant Rock

#62
April 05, 2008, 12:26:41 PM
Quote from: MN Dave on April 04, 2008, 06:40:15 AM
Okay. No more of that then.  $:)

Sarge creeps up behind the cop and shouts, "WAGLER!!!" and runs away.
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"

Norbeone

#63
April 05, 2008, 04:07:56 PM
Without the slightest bit of hesitation, i'd choose Bach.   0:)

(poco) Sforzando

#64
April 05, 2008, 06:56:30 PM
Quote from: bhodges on April 05, 2008, 09:43:16 AM
Just yesterday I found this list of Schnittke's works and I may have to pick him.  Part of my logic: a composer with a lot of works I haven't heard means becoming acquainted with lots of new pieces, the better to kill lots of time on that island.  ;)

--Bruce

If I were forced to hear nothing but Schnittke for the rest of my days, the only thing I would want to kill is myself.
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

Bogey

#65
April 05, 2008, 09:06:16 PM


Miles Davis, which automatically makes my island the coolest place to be!  ;D
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Christo

#66
April 06, 2008, 12:41:25 AM
Villa-Lobos, as he:
a) would fit the tropical conditions of the island well (we never imagine the deserted island to be Jan Mayen, but rather a kind of Tristan da Cunha, isn't it) and
b) wrote over 2000 compositions of all types and would keep me busy for a while.

Otherwise it's Vaughan Williams, for obvious reasons.
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Dancing Divertimentian

#67
April 06, 2008, 07:47:57 AM
Quote from: Bogey on April 05, 2008, 09:06:16 PM


Miles Davis, which automatically makes my island the coolest place to be!  ;D

:D

I'll bring my Mingus and it'll be a bona fide bash!



Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

prémont

#68
April 06, 2008, 08:06:14 AM
Quote from: Norbeone on April 05, 2008, 04:07:56 PM
Without the slightest bit of hesitation, i'd choose Bach.   0:)

So would I.
Reality trumps our fantasy far beyond imagination.

Ten thumbs

#69
April 06, 2008, 08:22:58 AM
I'll have to settle for Schubert, a composer who knew how to make the piano sing.
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.

bhodges

#70
April 06, 2008, 10:19:21 AM
Quote from: Sforzando on April 05, 2008, 06:56:30 PM
If I were forced to hear nothing but Schnittke for the rest of my days, the only thing I would want to kill is myself.

;D  [chuckling]

--Bruce
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