Greetings from Indonesia

[knight66]

Oh, yes...you look like you are well up for this. Welcome aboard the floating asylum.

Mike

[Sergeant Rock]

Fine combination, Sarge! Indeed some of my most intense listening experiences have occurred when I was having digestive problems - and did I tell you about the time that I contracted cholera? Yes, cholera, the disease that ravaged Tchaikovsky and most Europe during the Romantic era. It was during those sessions of HIL (Historically Informed Listening) that many inner secrets of the works written during the period have been revealed to me; indeed the experience has left me with a greater insight into the Romantic artists' concept of suffering. Even now, just as a precaution, I have a CD player specially installed in my bathroom - one never know when it may come in handy... 

Oh, yes...you look like you are well up for this. Welcome aboard the floating asylum.

Mike

Yes,  M. Croche passed the entrance exam with flying colors.

Sarge

[karlhenning]

Welcome aboard the floating asylum.

Brigadoon, Brigadoo-oon . . . .

[knight66]

Brigadoon, Brigadoo-oon . . . .

Though in contrast sighted pretty much daily.

Mike

[UB]

Welcome from Indonesia M. Croche - Where was your home in Indonesia? I have been living in Jakarta for the last 16 months and will be heading home to the states in just under a month.   

If you have a good internet connection and want to hear a nice variety of Xenakis' music try this 'on demand' site. I have to warn you that I could not check the sound because my connection is about 2 steps about a phone line. But from past experience it should work and the sound should be great. This program was broadcast as a tribute to Xenakis soon after he died.

http://www.vpro.nl/programma/avondconcert/afleveringen/3351914/

[Monsieur Croche]

Yes,  M. Croche passed the entrance exam with flying colors.

Sarge

What's next, gentlemen? 

Welcome from Indonesia M. Croche - Where was your home in Indonesia? I have been living in Jakarta for the last 16 months and will be heading home to the states in just under a month.

My home was (and still is) in Singkawang, West Kalimantan – I have only returned to Singapore for about 1 month now. Can I ask what you were doing in Indonesia for this past 16 months? How do you find the classical music scene there? It looks pretty much comatose to me...

If you have a good internet connection and want to hear a nice variety of Xenakis' music try this 'on demand' site. I have to warn you that I could not check the sound because my connection is about 2 steps about a phone line. But from past experience it should work and the sound should be great. This program was broadcast as a tribute to Xenakis soon after he died.

http://www.vpro.nl/programma/avondconcert/afleveringen/3351914/

I have tried the link and the sound is excellent, but there seems to be no information provided on the works themselves (or at least not in a language that I can understand).  Will post my impressions in due time, after a few more listenings.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I have tried the link and the sound is excellent, but there seems to be no information provided on the works themselves (or at least not in a language that I can understand).  Will post my impressions in due time, after a few more listenings.

I am Dutch. But the site doesn't provide any more information, as far as I can see. I don't know the music of Xenakis, otherwise I would have recognized what I am hearing...

[knight66]

What's next, gentlemen? 

Entirely up to you. We gave up the tarring and feathering initiation ages ago; such a mess on people's keyboards and frustratingly we could never see the results.

I hope you can be enticed into the Opera and Vocal room on occasion, the people there are particularly pleasant....well, I would say that, wouldn't I.

Mike

[DavidRoss]

During my first phase I was immediately hooked on the late-Romantic sound of composers such as Mahler, Richard Strauss, etc. Shostakovich also became one of my favourites.  However, after a few years inexplicably my tastes changed in an entirely opposite direction – moving away from emotional excess and towards simplicity, clarity, restraint, and elegance.

Have you met Mr. Sibelius yet, Adrian?

This is what I like about this forum: You guys have a great sense of humour! Over here people who listen to classical music are often labelled as boring, stuffy, and uptight… but the posters here have got to be some of the wittiest persons I have seen anywhere! I think I will enjoy my stay here…

Indeed!

We are witty and, moreover, we all, to a man (and woman), love fart jokes. There is no better place to discuss classical music and digestive issues.

Sarge!  Strike a match!  Please!