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- From: ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Brahms and Tosca (Was Re: Brahms Basher Repents)
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:02:05 GMT
- References: <Jan22.220810.51877@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1993Jan23.153030.12798@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1993Jan25.125143@axion.bt.co.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan25.125143@axion.bt.co.uk> efosbroo@axion.bt.co.uk (Elisabeth Fosbrooke) writes:
- >
- >In article <1993Jan23.153030.12798@hubcap.clemson.edu>, jtbell@hubcap.clemson.edu (Jon Bell) writes:
- >>
- >> When I started listening to classical music in high school, I didn't care
- >> for the Brahms symphonies either,... Now he's one of my favorites. So
- >> maybe Brahms is one of those composers that some people simply have to
- >> "grow up to" or something...
- >
- > When I was in my teens I listened to records with an older friend (>25) who
- > was very systematically building up a huge library. His theory was that
- > you start listening with Beethoven and Tchaikowsky and work up to Brahms
- > gradually - he was intending to research for the Brahms section of his
- > library by the time he was 30.
- >
- > I've finally got there - at least, I'm enthusiastically looking forward to
- > singing chorus in the Deutsches Requiem at the Bury Festival with Richard
- > Hickox!
-
- Or it could be "grow up *with*". My father had a boxful of assorted classic-
- al records which he'd acquired not because he had any feeling for music, but
- because he believed that if you listen to classical music people will think
- you're upper-class. As soon as I was old enough to be trusted with the rec-
- ord player, about age 8 or 9, Daddy let me play any of these records I liked.
- For me, one instant hit was Brahms's 1st Symphony, while the excerpts from
- various operas were soon studiously ignored. I suppose you could choose to
- make a heavy meal of Brahms or merely let it slip into your ears and let it
- jangle around in your brain. If you're going to make a heavy meal of it then
- of course you'll need to work to develop your appetite.
-
- Apropos of dull opera, someone here mentioned a version of Tosca in which the
- soprano gives something close to a real shriek instead of the usual cadenza
- imitating a polite and disinterested cry (I assume this is when she throws
- herself from the battlements?). I'm contemplating buying my second opera
- (Turandot was 1st and is much appreciated), and would appreciate someone
- emailing me the specs of the "real shriek" Tosca. Please make sure that
- your mailer uses the address below, and --
-
- Thanks!
-
-
- Carrie ceb@rechenau.unify.com x6244
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