What are you listening to now?

[FuzzySlippers]

I'm always reluctant to answer this when it's posted in the lounge cuz I'm so out of the mainstream, so I thought I'd post it here.

I'm listening to Madama Butterfly with Renata Tebaldi as Cio-cio-san and Giuseppe Campora as Pinkerton.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. I'm listening to Bach's St. John Passion every day

because my choir is performing it on March 19.

[FuzzySlippers]

2. That sounds like lots of fun.

:)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. My choir learns so much music so fast that it's the only way I can

get the rhythms and entrances in my head.

I did the same last year when we performed the B Minor Mass. At least the St. John Passion is shorter and has only one soprano line instead of two. :-)

[Duncan Grant]

4. Obsessed with these two (for many weeks now).

Khachaturian's "Masquerade" and Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet".

:thumbsup:

[MuseRider]

5. Ahhhhh Romeo and Juliet.

Is that not the most beautiful work! I love Prokofiev but that ballet is so wonderful that each time I hear it or play it I get chills through much of it. It is one of my all time favorites.

[Duncan Grant]

6. I'm awestruck by the process of composition.

The action of 'creating' music and committing it to paper is like magic to me. I know and understand painting, sculpture, and decorative arts but to compose music? To me, that's the among the cosmic mysteries.

Why am I not surprised that you have such excellent taste?! ;) :hi:

[MuseRider]

7. It escapes me as well.

I try to compose little tunes in my head all the time and they always come out horrible. The theory I understand but actually putting it down is not anything I am capable of. We had to do some of it in school and I was always embarrassed by what I came up with. My youngest son is changing his major from jazz studies to composition, he gets it.

:hi: Khachaturian's "Gayaneh" ballet is also very nice. If you do not know it get a copy. It includes the famous "Sabre Dance". Some of it is simply beautiful.