Recent posts

[Muzio Clementi]

#1

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Linz - Today at 10:44:39 AM

Muzio Clementi Symphony No.1 in C major wo32, Symphony in B flat major Op.18 and Symphony in D major Op.18, London Mozart Players, Matthias Barnet

#2

Composer Discussion / Re: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770...

Last post by Mandryka - Today at 10:39:45 AM

It's on YouTube.  It's gibberish.  Of course, he appears to be coked out, so maybe it made sense to him at the time.

Just changed it -- my bad -- Roland Barthes's Mythologies


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7leLkUVb44&ab_channel=Film%26MediaStudies

#3

The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...

Last post by DavidW - Today at 10:39:11 AM

I definitely want to read that one too; I'll be keeping my eyes open for a copy.

It is great.  People complain about it being hard to read, but I found that it has the most memorable, evocative imagery in all of Tolkien's writing.

#4

The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...

Last post by vers la flamme - Today at 10:34:18 AM

I'm currently re-reading both The Hobbit and Lotr. After that I shall re-read The Silmarillion which remains my all-time favorite by Tolkien. The prose he uses in that work is simply exquisite.

I definitely want to read that one too; I'll be keeping my eyes open for a copy.

#5

Composer Discussion / Re: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770...

Last post by Todd - Today at 10:31:48 AM

I've not seen that, but it's sounds like it's in the tradition of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Mythologiques.

It's on YouTube.  It's gibberish.  Of course, he appears to be coked out, so maybe it made sense to him at the time. 

#6

Composer Discussion / Re: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770...

Last post by Florestan - Today at 10:30:20 AM

One can read anything as/into anything, especially when one has an agenda to push or a much too vivid imagination, or both. Mozart's PC21 has been read as evidence for his repressed homosexuality, compared to which reading Beethoven's Ninth as a critique of ideology almost makes sense. 

#7

Composer Discussion / Re: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770...

Last post by Mandryka - Today at 10:29:11 AM

He has also stated that toilets reflect ideology.

I've not seen that, but it's sounds like it's in the tradition of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Mythologiques.   Roland Barthes's Mythologies

(Senior moment)

#8

The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...

Last post by Ganondorf - Today at 10:29:08 AM

I haven't seen the Dune Part 2 yet but I read Dune for the first time last year, and when I watched the Part 1 afterward I thought they left out so much.

I'm currently reading another big world-building-heavy book for the first time, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Not sure how I managed to avoid reading this, but it's quite good. I think I'm going to take it slow and read one volume at a time with other stuff in between, though I know the volumes are not really individual entries in a series but parts of a single novel. I just get the feeling that Tolkien's writing style might be easy for me to burn myself out on.

The editions I have are paperback and look really nice:



(not my photo)

I'm currently re-reading both The Hobbit and Lotr. After that I shall re-read The Silmarillion which remains my all-time favorite by Tolkien. The prose he uses in that work is simply exquisite.

#9

Composer Discussion / Re: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770...

Last post by Todd - Today at 10:21:00 AM

Then he asserts that in every ideology there are people who, for one reason or another, can't accept the ideological hegemony or who are rejected by the ideological orthodoxy.

He has also stated that toilets reflect ideology. 

[DRILLING]

#10

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Pohjolas Daughter - Today at 10:00:43 AM

Mostly yes. I'd think I'd be enjoying even more of it there hadn't been road works (specifically DRILLING) just outside my hotel room at 2:25am on Sunday. That wasn't a pleasant experience and my system hasn't fully recovered.

Falla is clearly a favourite son of Cádiz, the rather imposing theatre is named after him.

Perhaps it might be a prudent idea to get some sort of ear protection to dampen outside noises? 

PD