The Five Pieces You Never Want To Hear Again!

[Bunny]

I have to add the Theme from Titanic and that Celine Dion song.  I spent an hour in a coffee shop yesterday where it was on a loop.  I complained and they put on a really lackluster Vivaldi 4 seasons -- I could live without that as well. 

[Lethevich]

Steve Reich: Four Organs. A little salt-shaker-like sound accompanied by looooong and identical held organ chords. Repeated ad nauseum for 20 minutes.

I don't like that hideously pedantic excercise either and find it hard to believe it came from the same composer as the octet and music for large ensemble.

[Bonehelm]

I have to add the Theme from Titanic and that Celine Dion song.  I spent an hour in a coffee shop yesterday where it was on a loop.  I complained and they put on a really lackluster Vivaldi 4 seasons -- I could live without that as well. 

You can complain about the music being played in a coffee shop now? Wow..

[hornteacher]

I have to add the Theme from Titanic and that Celine Dion song.  I spent an hour in a coffee shop yesterday where it was on a loop.  I complained and they put on a really lackluster Vivaldi 4 seasons -- I could live without that as well. 

Thank goodness I don't drink coffee!

[S709]

Haha, great choices, Chris. The Whitacre piece you mentioned reminded me of another awful "exclamation point" piece... Tristian Murail's Vampyr!. Ten minutes of a guitar going "WEEEEEEOOOOOWOOOOO BOW CHICKA BOWBOW MEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR".

The Avanti! Chamber Orchestra should release a CD "Avanti! CO Plays Exclamation Mark Music!".

I don't like that hideously pedantic excercise either and find it hard to believe it came from the same composer as the octet and music for large ensemble.

Agreed, I guess it was a 'lapse in judgement' or something, since Reich at his best can be incredible (like in the pieces you named, plus New York Counterpoint and a ton of others).

[Kullervo]

The Avanti! Chamber Orchestra should release a CD "Avanti! CO Plays Exclamation Mark Music!".

With the Premiere Recording of Esa-Pekka Salonen's piece, "OMG!" for solo tuning fork and orchestra.

[Bunny]

Thank goodness I don't drink coffee!

I was having fruit salad and cottage cheese; nothing to do with coffee.  More like a "hamburger, hamburger, cheeseburger..." type of place.

[Bunny]

You can complain about the music being played in a coffee shop now? Wow..

Yes, when you hear the same thing over and over and over and over and over.  After about 40 minutes I couldn't think straight.  One song?  I'm surprised everyone else wasn't complaining.

[Kullervo]

Yes, when you hear the same thing over and over and over and over and over.  After about 40 minutes I couldn't think straight.  One song?  I'm surprised everyone else wasn't complaining.

I'm surprised that you didn't leave when it started the second time. Did you just not notice?

[Greta]

Eric Whitacre: Godzilla Eats Las Vegas! Exclamation mark is part of the title... this is supposed to be 'fun' but I can't stand it.

Oh amen. I saw this live (our 2nd band did it in college) and it is just the cheesiest thing ever. Thank god I didn't have to play it!

The Avanti! Chamber Orchestra should release a CD "Avanti! CO Plays Exclamation Mark Music!".

With the Premiere Recording of Esa-Pekka Salonen's piece, "OMG!" for solo tuning fork and orchestra.

ROFL! Back in the day, he and his compatriots Saariaho and Lindberg had an ! group of their own called Torvaat Auki! (Ears Open), which uh, played some "ear-opening music"....often to two landladies and their dogs as audience...

I can handle Floof, his "dodecaphonic rap" for histrionic soprano and 5 players, and generally adore his composing, but there is this one piece, a really early one, that is a no go for me.

Baalal, 1982: for electroacoustic tape - It's Berio, but well, not. 23 min. of people talking and yelling in Italian, I think played backwards at times, random woodwinds, microtonal chant, opera singing, harpsichord banging, street sounds, a mock sportscast, people burping, spitting and blowing raspberries, with a few minutes of decent music sandwiched in.

[hornteacher]

I was having fruit salad and cottage cheese; nothing to do with coffee.  More like a "hamburger, hamburger, cheeseburger..." type of place.

Really?  And they're playing Vivaldi?  Down here those places only play Garth Brooks and Dixie Chicks.   

[greg]

STOCKHAUSEN: Stimmung

yeah, that one definetely

any Beethoven symphony, Wagner opera, any cheesy American nationalist junk by Gottschalk or Copland, hard to narrow it down to 5

[Kullervo]

yeah, that one definetely

any Beethoven symphony, Wagner opera, any cheesy American nationalist junk by Gottschalk or Copland, hard to narrow it down to 5

You are asking for it, buster!

[hornteacher]

any Beethoven symphony, Wagner opera, any cheesy American nationalist junk by Gottschalk or Copland, hard to narrow it down to 5

Them's fighten' words, Tex.   

[greg]

Them's fighten' words, Tex.   

Ha! Put your dukes up and let's have a round or 17. 

[greg]

not that i'm saying it'll last 17 rounds......

[hornteacher]

not that i'm saying it'll last 17 rounds......

A round of what?  That's the question.   

[E d o]

Pachelbel's Canon
Pachelbel's Canon
Pachelbel's Canon
Pachelbel's Canon
Bolero - This pains me as I really like most everything else Ravel.

My apologies to Pachelbel fans.

[Bonehelm]

What's wrong with 1812 overture?

[Kullervo]

What's wrong with 1812 overture?

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with any of the pieces I just listed, I just think they're overplayed and overexposed, and I'd be fine if I didn't hear anything about them for a long time (especially Le Sacre, can't people just shut up about it?).