Mahler

[notyoueither]

I suspect you won't wait long.

[The Mad Monk]

Damn, too late for my Norman Mailer "misunderstanding".

[Swissy]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Best stuff on earth. You;ll never encounter anyone as capable of encompassing the grand sweep of human emotion and experience in music.

Listen. Learn. Love. Dear lord...

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
The 6th is phenomenal. The finale is simply a brilliant work...utterly gut-wrenching catastrophe. The three hammer blows should send anyone cowering. If this one doesn' t move you, you're hopeless.

Probably the only point of agreement I've ever had with Boris.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Swissy
Probably the only point of agreement I've ever had with Boris.

Hey, and I learned you can be right about something at least. We've both learned.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by molly bloom
I might be tempted to follow up with really cheesy Brahms puns, but the slushy romantic slop he came out with is punishment enough.

(Waits for Godunovian explosion..................)

Meh. Considering your professed preferences for clothing styles, grooming products and music, I'm comfortable enough with your extremely bad taste to not put much stock in it.

And even Brahms haters wouldn't refer to it as "slushy romantic slop." I mean, we're talking Brahms here, who's the picture of classical austerity and structural rigor.

[TCO]

Mahler is good. I was into him in college.

[Boris Godunov]

But his symphonies are so long, you'd have been changing the victrola all day.

[TCO]

We had CDs before most college students. USNA mids get paid salaries.

[Buck Birdseed]

Since when is learning to kill people in creative ways a college education?

[Datajack Franit]

Teach us oh Great Boris, as we are poor peasants only

[Buck Birdseed]

Re: Mahler

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Best stuff on earth. You;ll never encounter anyone as capable of encompassing the grand sweep of human emotion and experience in music.

Listen. Learn. Love. Dear lord...

Oh go on then Boris, recommend me some really bootyshakin' mahler beats.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
Since when is learning to kill people in creative ways a college education?

a. what are you talking about.

b. USNA is the "uncollege".

c. Read Webb's A SENSE OF HONOR

[Agathon]

Who do you have playing 1 and 6 Boris?

edit: Mahler is probably my favourite composer. I've lost count of how many Mahler CDs I have.

I think I have everything but Das Klagende Lied and some of them I have 4 or more versions of.

If anyone wants to recommend good performances, please do.

[Agathon]

One of my favourite Mahler records is the 2nd symphony conducted by Gilbert Kaplan.

It's not the best of the best, but it puts to shame many other recordings, which is surprising as Kaplan is not a professional conductor.

In fact, he's a rich Mahler fan who could afford to hire an orchestra and a conductor to teach him how to conduct the 2nd Symphony. As I said, it shames the recordings of most professional conductors and reminds me that there's hope for us all.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Meh. Considering your professed preferences for clothing styles, grooming products and music, I'm comfortable enough with your extremely bad taste to not put much stock in it.

Remind me of what those allegedly are meant to be, oh gay man who can't iron.... or get cafetiere coffee right.

I mean, if you can't iron, honeychile, I'm thinking Brown Bottle the Bag Lady's fashion sense might seem positively Nouvelle Vague in comparison with yours- or are you saying you wear Yohji Yamamoto and Hussein Chalayan unstructured clothing?