After having my head stuffed by the barrage of new economic policies announced under the new Indian financial budget of the government, and then hundreds of news analysts giving hundreds of comments on it, I decided to clear my mind by playing some music after turning off the television.
Opened up Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op.90 - II. Andante, and it had an instantaneous effect in clearing my mind.
Music must not be taken for granted; it’s a great contribution to maintaining the peace of mind of the most anxious species on the planet.
Yes I have seen the Joffrey ballet recreation of the original dancing. I think that recreation got the music wrong. So I prefer to watch the Valery Gergiev orchestra of it instead, normally.
Its premier caused a riot, because it was too unconventional for the uncultured Russian audience.
Aargh, why were Russian geniuses born to a country of peasantry too unintelligent and unworldly to appreciate their work? What a huge divide there was in that country back in those days.
What’s the difference between classical and romance music? I always thought I was liking classical but I suspected that it was in fact romance. Personally, I end up listening to Howard Hanson symphonies and a few others -but it’s obviously not like I’m an expert on music.
classical, romantic, baroque, etc. are different eras of music (and visual arts as well). Most people use ‘classical’ as a catch-all to mean art music (as opposed to secular or folk music). Anyway, classical music began after Bach and ended with Beethoven which roughly works out to be the second half of the 18th century. Romanticism was the dominant movement of the 19th century.
Thanks for the above. To my understanding romantic was supposed to be more emotionally evocative as opposed to the balance and reason of classical music.
But I digress -Howard Hanson is a romantic (so I like romance), but I also like ode to joy and handel (you know the usual dilettante ones [:)]) so that puts me square in the classical period too. So that’s what I like.