I'm so old I Remember when:

[notabitail]

I read that the producers chose this piece mainly for the fact that it was free for them to use.

Public domain.

I find the copyright period over here (somewhere around 100 years or so) to be a bit annoying at times.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

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I left my Golden retriever in the truck with a full box of these once while I ran into a store to buy a single item, and when I returned there was nothing left but a few shreds of paper. Panicked, I ran back into the store, grabbed a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and ran back out, telling the store clerk I'd be right back to pay for it, and drenched the dog with the whole (small) bottle, about 4 oz. Ran back in and paid for it (I think it was under 50c), then ran back to check on my dog, who was looking very thoughtful. He said Urp once or twice so I let him out of the truck, and up it came, peroxide, paper and ten pounds of chocolate. I was so glad he wasn't going to die that day!

Classical pieces are neither boring, monotonous, nor repetitive.

Tchaikovsky! Rimsky-Korsakov! Yaaah! Oh yes, and Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, "The Emperor"! Rachmaninov....

 

[pertnear09]

I left my Golden retriever in the truck with a full box of these once while I ran into a store to buy a single item, and when I returned there was nothing left but a few shreds of paper. Panicked, I ran back into the store, grabbed a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and ran back out, telling the store clerk I'd be right back to pay for it, and drenched the dog with the whole (small) bottle, about 4 oz. Ran back in and paid for it (I think it was under 50c), then ran back to check on my dog, who was looking very thoughtful. He said Urp once or twice so I let him out of the truck, and up it came, peroxide, paper and ten pounds of chocolate. I was so glad he wasn't going to die that day!


Tchaikovsky! Rimsky-Korsakov! Yaaah! Oh yes, and Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, "The Emperor"! Rachmaninov....

Blue, on your recommendation, I googled Rachmaninov and found one of Khatia Buniatishvilli. Quite a talented young lady. Her fingers were just a blur on that piano. Had me captivated for forty minutes.

 

[Evadig]

Oh yes, and Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, "The Emperor"!

I love that piece!
Beethoven and Bach are my two favorites. Closely followed by Handel.
I’d sometimes fall asleep listening to the Messiah.

 

[theoldchick]

 

[Sally PB]

It just seems that nobody likes classical music anymore so I feel compelled to defend it every time someone says something that isn't completely laudatory

Yeah lots of people say they hate it and haven't listened to the good stuff.

Yup.

There is a reason they're still being played hundreds of years later.

YUP!!!

I may be going to a live performance of another, way better (in my opinion) piece very soon.

Wonderful! What piece?

My most favorite piece of music in the world is Beethoven's 9th Symphony. I've heard it live 3? 4? times? I'm the person who leaps out of her seat at the end and yells, "Bravo Beethoven!" Usually with tears in my eyes.

 

[notabitail]

Yup.

YUP!!!

Wonderful! What piece?

My most favorite piece of music in the world is Beethoven's 9th Symphony. I've heard it live 3? 4? times? I'm the person who leaps out of her seat at the end and yells, "Bravo Beethoven!" Usually with tears in my eyes.

It's going to be the Mozart Requiem. First time I will go to a live performance like this in years (last one was Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. I don't remember it super well since I was half as old as I am now).

I hope to hear the 9th in person some day. It's one of my favorites as well.

Beetov-hen says that I have to say that she wrote another song, this time about what she and all the other Wyandottes do a lot (they poo. Especially when they were chicks. The Buffs didn't). She says she wrote the "ode to poo". She says it's not for human ears. I think she's making it up.

 

[Sally PB]

Beetov-hen says that I have to say that she wrote another song, this time about what she and all the other Wyandottes do a lot (they poo. Especially when they were chicks. The Buffs didn't). She says she wrote the "ode to poo". She says it's not for human ears. I think she's making it up.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

Back when I was doing re-enactments in the 80's and 90's, I was in northern Alabama around a campfire. A fellow was playing period songs from the mid 1860's on a banjo (and he was good). He asked for request and some one (jokingly) called out "Ode to Joy". He played it and it was GREAT.
Someone called out "Yeah, but do you know the words". So he played it again AND sang the words. MAN that was glorious night.
You never know who is going to be around those campfires. I have actually met Doctors, Lawyers and Indian Chiefs.

 

[Hayden Goseek]