September 16, 201412 yr Author I'll start with this one. Gabriel Fauré has written some of my absolute favorite musical pieces of all time, and in by estimation I would have to imagine that "In Paradisum", the final movement from Fauré's Requiem which he composed and revised over the course of the final 20 years of the nineteenth century, may well be the actual music you will hear as you enter heaven. ...at least I hope it is.
September 16, 201412 yr 1812 Overture Anything Mozart, Beethoven, Stauss, Brahms, Bach, Copland, Brahms, Handel, or Tchaikovsky
September 16, 201412 yr This is how I became a fan of classical music. I guess it depends on your age. But I'd recommend this deal to anyone. I saw it with the music played live and it was awesome. Bugs Bunny at the Symphony with the RTE Concert Orchestra on Vimeo
September 16, 201412 yr Author 1812 Overture Anything Mozart, Beethoven, Stauss, Brahms, Bach, Copland, Brahms, Handel, or Tchaikovsky Copland's piece "Fanfare for the Common Man" is fairly well known, although not everyone necessarily knows the song by its name. It was actually written in 1942 specifically to be played by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at the request of the CSO's conductor, Eugene Goossens. Goossens wanted a fanfare to begin each performance with, and was looking for something to celebrate the efforts of the American "common man" in the war effort, seeing as the United States had just formally entered World War II. The performance in the video linked above is from this year's Lumenocity festival put on by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, who originally played the piece. The free festival takes place in the park in front of Music Hall, with the Symphony Orchestra providing live music, and the images and light show being projected directly onto the facade of Music Hall. Pretty incredible.
September 16, 201412 yr Author This is how I became a fan of classical music. I guess it depends on your age. But I'd recommend this deal to anyone. I saw it with the music played live and it was awesome. Bugs Bunny at the Symphony with the RTE Concert Orchestra on Vimeo Heck yeah! I forget what his name was, but the music director for Warner Bros. cartoons (Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies) was HUGE on using classical music for the soundtracks and scores...and what he didn't use directly from classical composers, he wrote himself intentionally using as many orchestral and symphonic methods as possible. He was allllllllll about educating the masses in classical music. As for seeing things played live like that, when I was a kid, my parents took my younger brother and me to see the Cincinnati Pops perform the score to Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" while they projected the movie onto a giant screen behind the orchestra. It still sticks out vividly in my mind. Absolutely awesome.
September 16, 201412 yr As for seeing things played live like that, when I was a kid, my parents took my younger brother and me to see the Cincinnati Pops perform the score to Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" while they projected the movie onto a giant screen behind the orchestra. It still sticks out vividly in my mind. Absolutely awesome.Exactly same thing for me. I grew up in Pittsburgh and we got to go see the symphony live several times. When you can physically feel the music, it's just different. I wish more kids had the opportunity.
September 16, 201412 yr I picked up Max Richter's "recomposition" of Vivaldi's Four Seasons a while back and I really liked it. I would like to find more "modern" stuff like that.
September 16, 201412 yr Author One more, and then back to work. Here's a little more contemporary piece for you. George Gershwin grew up in a poor Brooklyn family, and showed a musical interest from a very young age; he started writing lessons for other piano students around age 15. He also wrote his first composition at age 15. He wrote this piece 6 years later in 1919 at the age of 21. It was also written with the intention of being a "lesson" for a string quartet. Here are two versions. The first is how Gershwin would have originally composed the piece on his piano at home. The second version is how it is intended to be played, by a string quartet. George Gershwin - Lullaby For Strings (Played on the piano.) Edited September 16, 201412 yr by Colonels_Wear_Blue
September 16, 201412 yr I am a big fan when they bring the orchestra to accompany a modern day band. I just watched Alice in Chains doing Led Zepplin's Kashmir with an orchestra. It was pretty cool.
September 16, 201412 yr Author I picked up Max Richter's "recomposition" of Vivaldi's Four Seasons a while back and I really liked it. I would like to find more "modern" stuff like that. Ever listened much to Philip Glass?
September 16, 201412 yr Copland's piece "Fanfare for the Common Man" is fairly well known, although not everyone necessarily knows the song by its name. It was actually written in 1942 specifically to be played by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at the request of the CSO's conductor, Eugene Goossens. Goossens wanted a fanfare to begin each performance with, and was looking for something to celebrate the efforts of the American "common man" in the war effort, seeing as the United States had just formally entered World War II. The performance in the video linked above is from this year's Lumenocity festival put on by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, who originally played the piece. The free festival takes place in the park in front of Music Hall, with the Symphony Orchestra providing live music, and the images and light show being projected directly onto the facade of Music Hall. Pretty incredible. My dad, a cellist for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for 44 years, started with Goossens.
September 16, 201412 yr It wasn't until I took a "Classical Music Appreciation" class in college as an elective that I began to take notice of classical music. Over the course of the semester, I found that I tended to prefer composers from the "Romantic Era" most of all. Some of these would include Mozart (very early in the era), Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Wagner. Of the four mentioned, I probably prefer Wagner most of all (Lohengrin Prelude and Pilgrim's Chorus are two wonderful compositions that come to mind). Of course my preference of Wagner could have something to do with the fact that he was also my professor's favorite. And let us not forget it was Wagner who composed the "Wedding March"!! I'm also a fan of pretty much everything James Horner has ever done.
September 16, 201412 yr Author Camille Saint-Saëns 1835 – 1921 ( , ) taught Gabriel Fauré 1845 – 1924 ( , ) taught Maurice Ravel 1875 – 1937 ( , ) and Nadia Boulanger 1887 – 1979 ( ) taught Aaron Copland 1900 – 1990 ( , Appalachian Spring “Simple Gifts”, Fanfare For The Common Man) and Quincy Jones b. 1933 ( , , ) and Philip Glass b. 1937 ( ) taught Nico Muhly b. 1981 ( , )
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