Hello

[Mr. Stevens Senior]

I'm a minor government functionary who lives in the Midwestern USA.  For a number of reasons too personal even for the Internet, I've rediscovered music.  For the past 10+ years I've listened to bits and pieces of music on the car radio and that's it.  But I've recently bought an Ipod and ahh, what glorious music!  I can listen to it in my car, my office, my house, everywhere.  It's fantastic.  How did I live without it?  Never again.

I like most kinds of music (although I have a low tolerance for barbershop quartet, hip-hop, and Celtic new agey music).  So far my library includes works by Bach, Barber, Beethoven, Bruckner, Cherubini, Copland, Dvorak, Foerster, Glass, Gorecki, Grofe, Handel, Hanson, Haydn, Holst, Janacek, Mahler, Mussorgsky, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Orff, Paganini, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Saint-Saens, Satie, Schubert, Shostakovich, Suk, Tchaikovsky, Villa-Lobos, and Vivaldi. 
I love Howard Hanson; every evening driving home from work I listen to his second symphony and it never fails to make me feel peaceful and confident about the future.  I also like swing, Jazz, Roxy Music, and movie soundtracks; lately I've developed a sweet tooth for medieval and early renaissance instrumental music.

So I'm very glad to be here and look forward to learning a lot and getting to know people on the board.

[knight66]

A warm welcom Mr SS, I hope you enjoy yourself here. Even though I have quite a range of music in my collection, I don't know the Hanson symphony. I am now about to Spotify it and see what it is like.

Cheers,

Mike

PS Enjoying it right now.

[mc ukrneal]

Welcome! I apologize in advance for any damage to your bank account!

[Papy Oli]

Welcome !!

[Hollywood]

Greetings from Vienna, Austria. Welcome to the forum.

[david johnson]

hi   

dj

[madaboutmahler]

Hello and welcome!

What a great list of composers you have mentioned, what a range! Very glad to see Mahler included in that list!

Hope you enjoy yourself here,

Daniel

[Lisztianwagner]

Welcome and enjoy the forum! Hope you'll have a nice time
Amazing list of favourite composers, but pity you haven't included Wagner too....

Ilaria

[sheffmark]

Welcome from me too!

[Karl Henning]

Welcome, Mr Stevens!  The Midwest is a big place . . . I did my undergrad work in Wooster, Ohio (a music major, in fact).

[Cato]

Welcome, Mr Stevens!  The Midwest is a big place . . . I did my undergrad work in Wooster, Ohio (a music major, in fact).

Ohio (where I am) WAS "The West" in the early days!      A good number of towns in eastern Ohio were created by New Englanders looking for better soil, and thus the settlements were built along New England lines, with a "green" in the center and a spare Congregationalist church nearby.

So, Mr. Stevens Senior have fun here!   0:)

[Karl Henning]

Aye, near the Common, for (in the auld days) the church house, which else had sat idle the larger part of the week, served also for the Town Hall.

[classicalgeek]

A hearty welcome to you!

I like most kinds of music (although I have a low tolerance for barbershop quartet, hip-hop, and Celtic new agey music). 

I share your low tolerance of the last two - though I've sung barbershop music and I find it kind of fun   

So far my library includes works by Bach, Barber, Beethoven, Bruckner, Cherubini, Copland, Dvorak, Foerster, Glass, Gorecki, Grofe, Handel, Hanson, Haydn, Holst, Janacek, Mahler, Mussorgsky, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Orff, Paganini, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Saint-Saens, Satie, Schubert, Shostakovich, Suk, Tchaikovsky, Villa-Lobos, and Vivaldi. 

An impressive list!  And I predict it will only grow...

I love Howard Hanson; every evening driving home from work I listen to his second symphony and it never fails to make me feel peaceful and confident about the future.

A fine composer and a fine work!  If you don't have them already, I recommend the other Hanson symphonies on Delos or Naxos, in fine readings by Gerard Schwarz and my hometown band, the Seattle Symphony.

So I'm very glad to be here and look forward to learning a lot and getting to know people on the board.

I think you'll like it here - I finally started posting about three weeks ago after lurking for a while, and I'm glad I did.  Lots of friendly and helpful people who are enthusiastic about classical music!  What's not to love?

[bhodges]

Hello, Mr. Stevens Senior! (Is there a Mr. Stevens Junior?  ) Welcome to GMG, and I like that Hanson symphony a lot, too. The recording below (coupled with Barber's Violin Concerto) was one of the first CDs I ever bought, back in the day. Haven't heard it in years, so this might spur me to do so!

Anyway, enjoy yourself!

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--Bruce

[Mirror Image]

Welcome aboard! I hope you like Tippett.

[Mr. Stevens Senior]

Thanks, everybody.  As to Hanson, I now own everything I could find on CD; almost all of it is Schwartz and the SSO.

@ madaboutmahler: I bought all Mahler's symphonies.  The fifth is my favorite so far.  I have the one conducted by Frank Shipway and the Royal Philharmonic.

@Ilaria: I have one thing by Wagner; the Trauermarsch.  It's very beautiful.  Unfortunately, though, I don't like opera right now.  Maybe someday I'll get into it (my father and grandfather came to love opera later in their lives) but not now.  Can you point me to any recordings of the music without the singing?  When I dug back into my old CD collection I found Lorin Maazel's Wagner Ohne Worte, but the CD was missing!  I plan to re-buy that disc, can you recommend any others?

[Leon]

I'm a minor government functionary who lives in the Midwestern USA.  For a number of reasons too personal even for the Internet, I've rediscovered music.  For the past 10+ years I've listened to bits and pieces of music on the car radio and that's it.  But I've recently bought an Ipod and ahh, what glorious music!  I can listen to it in my car, my office, my house, everywhere.  It's fantastic.  How did I live without it?  Never again.

I like most kinds of music (although I have a low tolerance for barbershop quartet, hip-hop, and Celtic new agey music).  So far my library includes works by Bach, Barber, Beethoven, Bruckner, Cherubini, Copland, Dvorak, Foerster, Glass, Gorecki, Grofe, Handel, Hanson, Haydn, Holst, Janacek, Mahler, Mussorgsky, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Orff, Paganini, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Saint-Saens, Satie, Schubert, Shostakovich, Suk, Tchaikovsky, Villa-Lobos, and Vivaldi. 
I love Howard Hanson; every evening driving home from work I listen to his second symphony and it never fails to make me feel peaceful and confident about the future.  I also like swing, Jazz, Roxy Music, and movie soundtracks; lately I've developed a sweet tooth for medieval and early renaissance instrumental music.

So I'm very glad to be here and look forward to learning a lot and getting to know people on the board.

There, you said the Magic Word - (Haydn) - and now a duck will drop down and tell you what you have won!  It is also in your favor to have mentioned Early Music, this will get you two weeks in the playlist of your choice.

Welcome!