Does anyone here love/listen to Classical/orchestrational music?

[DBella]

oh yeah, john williams!! i loove him too, of course hes a big name in my collection of movie scores. but i love all kinds, hell, i even have the main themes to "city slickers" and disneys "the great mouse detective", lol. and anyone here know the the "peter gunn" theme? i LOVE that!

also, i agree with the poster JP, i also listen to alot of regular songs just for the background music. for instance, i love limp bizkits mission:impossible 2 theme, but i HATE the stupid lyrics. i wish i could just find a version of the song just with the music and not the lame (c)rap lyrics.

and yes, Ennio Morricone, been meaning to get that for a while, and i finally just bought that soundtrack for the Good the Bad and the Ugly last week. amazing stuff, i LOVE that whistleing theme.

Ennio Morricone... love his stuff! He did some amazing scores for Cinema Paradiso and Malena, two of my favorite Italian films.

wow, you also love TGMD? so cool! yeah i grew up watching that, and just recently watched it again with my family. great great stuff! i love vincent price as ratigan, hes awsome! kinda scary at the end remember? i loved the opening theme, so i looked for it on itunes and found it, and henry mancini does it (same guy who did moonriver, peter gunn, pink panther) so hes one of my favorites now.


and thanks alot for that link, i will have to check it out! as for opera, well i like the Phantom of the Opera, lol, but i dont think that qualifies as opera.

Which part at the end do you deem scary? The fight scene on top of the clock tower?

If you want some recommendations for opera, you can let me know via PM if you want. Italian operas are the best! *bias*

 

[Moviefan2k4]

I enjoy a lot of film instrumentals as well. John Williams has widely become known in fan circles as the "Movie Music Master", and a few of my other faves include Alan Silvestri, Danny Elfman, Hanz Zimmer, and James Horner.

 

[DBella]

I got to play for John Williams in 1996. I was in the Olympic band for the games in Atlanta. He wrote the theme "Summon the Heroes". He conducted us for the opening ceremonies. I'm a big classical music fan. I play the trombone at church and I play with a community orchestra. Plus I have a brass quintet that's for hire for weddings, social functions, whatever.

I envy you. Are you a professional full-time musician or do you do it part-time?

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Ennio Morricone... love his stuff! He did some amazing scores for Cinema Paradiso and Malena, two of my favorite Italian films.

Which part at the end do you deem scary? The fight scene on top of the clock tower?

If you want some recommendations for opera, you can let me know via PM if you want. Italian operas are the best! *bias*

I love some opera, I've played a couple of those too for some Atlanta theater groups. They're great for dates if you really want to impress a girl. But the music is good too. Madame Butterfly is a personal favorite

 

[Metamorpho1977]

I envy you. Are you a professional full-time musician or do you do it part-time?

I would classify it more semi-professional. I do most of my playing part-time. It's a passion of mine. I'd like to make a full time go at it. Maybe I'll find some way to post some of my recordings online some time.

 

[DBella]

I love some opera, I've played a couple of those too for some Atlanta theater groups. They're great for dates if you really want to impress a girl. But the music is good too. Madame Butterfly is a personal favorite

Puccini's Madama Butterfly is one of my favorites too but I think I might like his La boheme a little more. I have too many favorites but I might have to list Verdi's La Traviata on the top because I love the story.

I would classify it more semi-professional. I do most of my playing part-time. It's a passion of mine. I'd like to make a full time go at it. Maybe I'll find some way to post some of my recordings online some time.

I have seen a few symphony orchestras in concert and wished and dreamed many times that I'm on stage playing my clarinet with them but alas, I know I am not good enough for that. So I dream on. I hope you do get to make it full time some day and live my dream. That'd be fantastic!
If you could post some of your recordings online, that'd be awesome as I'd love to hear them.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

So, do you live in Italy? There are some great operas there. La Boheme is in my top 10 of operas. I wonder if there's a way I can post them on myspace. I know videos and pictures can be posted, but can music?

 

[DBella]

So, do you live in Italy? There are some great operas there. La Boheme is in my top 10 of operas. I wonder if there's a way I can post them on myspace. I know videos and pictures can be posted, but can music?

I did live in Italy but I'm in the Pacific Northwest now.
I am computer illiterate so I can't tell you. Sorry. O wait! I think you can because I know someone who has myspace and he did have a song from his band posted there somehow.

 

[Alexia Dark]

Yep. I don't like the religious themes, but I do enjoy some classical. Not random, cheery little solos by flutists or pianists, but large, famous works with drama and emotion put into them. I even listen to opera occationally, if I feel the singer isn't simply doing what I call 'vocal overcompensation' (aka, really dark, overacted, fake vibrato. Eww.)

 

[GoogleMe94]

Which part at the end do you deem scary? The fight scene on top of the clock tower?

yeah when ratigan turns all huge and evil like a big beast or something, just when i was a kid he scared me alot, like he was like this bloodthirsty thing at the end, very creepy, even nowadays lol!

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Tu sei una stella, DBella. Thanks

 

[CorpusBlack]

Shostakovich is my fav composer of all time. With Mozart and Beethoven tied for 2nd.