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Emergency Post!!!

by DK

I had no intention of blogging while on vacation, unless there was a life changing event or an emergency. This is the former. Pandora is now offering classical music!!! This is HUGE! Classical music listening may return in a serious way, more widespread than ever before. For those of you who are interested in classical music, or any music, please do check out Pandora. This is so massive, and such a major step for those of us who love both music, and the best of western civilization.

My Mom taught me that classical music is in some ways dominated by the “Three Bs”: Bach; Beethoven; Brahms.

I also like Stravinsky, Mahler, and Chopin (very accessible!). Schumann and Schubert are nothing to sneer at either.

Pandora is free. This is not just a great thing for music lovers, this is a great day for the spread of higher western civilization.

I played the violin for many years, since i was four years old. This is–too me–part of the Ashkenazi heritage. We are a part of this, even if we did not make are mark from a composition standpoint as disproportionately as we prefer. But we do have our composers. In the U.S., we dominate. Copland, Gershwin, and Bernstein are–for the U.S.– critical composers of the 20th century. But unfortunately, the U.S. is not itself a major contributor to the larger canon.

8 comments

1 oy { 11.20.07 at 10:24 pm }

and here we thought your “emergency post” was about this
http://curiousjew.blogspot.com.....ssion.html

2 Nechama Yenta { 11.20.07 at 10:57 pm }

This is great. Thanks!! I’m listening to Chopin as I write. There’s no “e” in Copland, and Gershwin was also an American Jewish composer.

3 mohammed { 11.20.07 at 11:38 pm }

you could get it all off irc, what’s the big deal?

4 Isaac { 11.21.07 at 3:42 am }

Isaac Wertheimer publishes Vos Iz Neias. See The Man Behind VIN

5 therapydoc { 11.21.07 at 11:38 pm }

So can you conduct the Pastoral Symphony?

6 therapydoc { 11.21.07 at 11:38 pm }

I just said that because my husband is doing it in my kitchen right now.

7 C-Girl { 11.25.07 at 7:42 pm }

My new quick mix: Matthew Sweet, Elvis Costello & Leonard Bernstein. (Looking up Rimsky Korsakov got me J-Radical’s rendition of Flight of the Bumblebee. Not quite…)

Thanks for the tip, DK. Do you still play your violin?

8 DK { 11.25.07 at 9:45 pm }

C-Girl,

I stopped a few year ago after an off and on period…my wrists were always a little weak, and I am on the computer all the time…a lot of it is physical to some degree.

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