Classical Music

[Lycanthrope]

Any other classical music fans out there, or am I all alone?

[EvilElf]

I listen to some classical music.
mostly just Beethoven

[Ein]

Moonlight Sonata fuggin' rules. And I like classical music too, pending on what it is.

[Dante]

I don't mind classical. Holst's Jupiter - The Planets rocks.

[Stover]

I hate classical music. Just look at the top third of my play list.

Air for Band
Flourish for Wind Ban
Barber's Adagio for Strings
Albinoni's Adagio
Badinerie
Bolero
Promenade, Bydlo, the Old Castle, the Great Gate of Kiev (all from Pictures at an Exhibition)
Cannon in D
Enigma Variations- Nimrod
Fur Elise
Moonlight Sonata
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major

Yeah, classical music sucks.

[cruelty13]

I listen to Vivaldi, Mozart, Bach, Händel, Ravell, Gounod, Offenbach and Berlioz dayly. I hate Debussy. Booring!

[Dynamite Kid]

Chopin, Vivaldi, The Doobie Brothers... I've always been more one for the "traditional" rather than the "classical," though. Folk songs are more fun to sing and tap to.

[CheshireThief]

I listen to classical music sometimes. Wouldn't call it my favorite, but I don't hate it. Good for studying.

[Muffin Mage]

I like classical music, but I also like instrumental opera music (i.e. Barber of Seville overture).

My real love is jazz.

[cruelty13]

I whistle when I listen to classical music. I don't even realise it. I like opera music too. I have La Nozze di Figaro and Cosi Fan Tutte on DVD. Pelleas et Melissande too along with Don Giovanni and Der Fledermaus. I also like Dixieland Jazz. Like the one in Metropolis. The 2002 version.

[Bezo]

Love classical? I write classical.

Well, neo-classical anyway.

[Lycanthrope]

Hey! Me too! My favorites are Mendelsohn (Mozart's reincarnation in the romantic period, when music was more interesting), Tchiacovski, Dvorak, Bach, Stravinski, Shostacovich, Gershwin, Saint-Sains, and several others. I'd like Mahler if I could find the time and attention to listen to him. I dispise Wagner, or at least most Wagner, and most other of the Late Romantic Germans, although there are quite a few noticable exceptions.
I like Beetoven too, although I usually opt for something later and more complex.
Oh, and cant forget Britten and Holst (yes, planets=cool, esp. Mars). Bernstine. Yes I know too much for my own good, but that's ok. I play the violin, and so get a lot of exposure.

[Muffin Mage]

Bah. I play sax, and most classical sax music is a) bad, b) transposed tuba/string bass parts, or c) Gershwin.

[Illuminatus]

Classical guitar rocks hardcore. I listen to all kinds of CLassical music, but not extensively, mainly because there's a lot I like and a lot I don't and it's hard to find a CD or tape with the right combo.

[Lycanthrope]

Muffin Mage: Check out bizet. L'arsien suite has a sax in it and its pretty good.

Edit: the sax also has a solo.

[Hoboken]

Yeah, I listen to classical music, but I like jazz best. I play trombone and its where you actually get some solos.

[FunnyLooking]

I love classical, as it by far the best genre of music. Tchaikovsky is personally my favorite composer. Little Russian, Marche Slave, Swan Lake, and 1812 Overture all are totally hardcore.

Mendelsohn is pretty awesome, but I've only heard the Violin Concerto. It rules though.

No solos for trombone in classical music? Where have you been looking?

Oh, a recent classical composer nowadays is Frank Ticheli, who's really good if you've ever heard Blue Shades. It's bordering on jazzy though, making it ever cooler.

[Lycanthrope]

Funny Looking: As for Mendelsohn, yes the violin concerto is cool. You can get a good span of his carrier and its highlights from this list (this is the order he wrote them in, btw):
Octet
Midsummernight's Dream Overture
Fourth Symphony
Third Symphony (yes, he did write the fourth before the third. Its a long story)
Violin Concerto.

He really doesn't sound like violin concerto style until the third symphony though, he kinda came into his own then, but the rest are still cool. He wrote the octet and the overture when he was 16. Mozart wrote his first major noteworthy piece when he was 21.

[Bezo]

I wish my MP3.com page was still up so I could show you guys my stuff.

Oh well, hopefully I'll find a new host soon. :D

[Lycanthrope]

Oh well... I suppose I could, if I tried really hard, find some way of recording my pieces. Problem is that I write mostly orchestral music, and, well, if you've ever tried converting a midi file into an audio file when your midi system is incompattible with your audio recording software, you know what I'm talking about.