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BEETHOVEN makes me nervous. Puts me on edge. Not how TCHAIKOVSKY (Original Post)
UTUSN
Jun 2016
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,681 posts)1. Where did you go, my dear UTUSN?
You didn't finish your
UTUSN
(70,725 posts)2. You are *so* observant!1 I was about to start another thread (or "thought")
Maybe because BEETHOVEN makes me nervous. He's sort of overwhelming. See my next thread!1
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)3. Sort of analogous to Mingus and Ellington...
...Charles always sounds edgy to me...the Duke serenely rises above it all, and always sounds perfect. Love 'em both, but sometimes I'm in the mood for one, sometimes the other. Same With Peter Ilyich and Ludwig von...
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)6. It depends on what Beethoven, though.
Late quartets are definitely edgy, first symphony not at all.
-- Mal
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)4. Phillip Glass makes me nervous. Beethoven is just fine. nt
ailsagirl
(22,898 posts)5. I used to think that Beethoven's music was heavy and ponderous
Iggo
(47,564 posts)7. That's 'cause Beethoven's metal, and metal's supposed to make you nervous.
Orrex
(63,220 posts)8. It was like for a moment, O my brothers, some great bird had flown into the milkbar
jrandom421
(1,005 posts)9. How could Beethoven put you on edge
after listening to Symphony No 6?
UTUSN
(70,725 posts)10. Maybe my lyrics to the "lullaby" refrain have something to do with it:
"The wind blows
The sea rolls
The days and nights go by...
And I live
And you live
And someday we will die"
-- (words by: ) UTUSN