Long hair music that slaps

Boxymusic · 2023-02-07T23:25:27.657Z

I know it’s not cool and has been killed by shitty theme park adverts, but this is actually a pretty crazy piece of music, if you imagine yourself hearing it for the first time… my seven year old and I enjoy bouncing around to it.

At the other end of the scale, probably the only piece of music that can make me cry

Suspect_Frequency · 2023-02-07T23:35:42.085Z

Wrong type of long hair?

subduct · 2023-02-08T19:06:35.452Z

Size on that bass guitar!

subduct · 2023-02-08T19:10:24.443Z

jiffybox · 2023-02-09T04:36:16.457Z

Needs more Motörhead.

adamc · 2023-02-09T05:19:33.126Z

Which I now associate with the descent into madness in:

LyingDalai · 2023-02-09T07:03:19.140Z

subduct · 2023-02-09T07:18:36.121Z

Rite of Spring is a classic slapper

reeloy · 2023-02-09T09:15:36.552Z

…with all due respect, but vivaldi was a punk, not a hippie…
don’t be fooled by the wigs…that was all just snobbery camouflage back then…
as always, brilliant mindset beats shady attitude…

Fin25 · 2023-02-09T09:39:38.874Z

Varèse was serious

Long hair for long hair

Fuck you, Hitler!

My favourite Xenakis

No-one knew how to fuck a piano like Bartók

Almost forgot Ligeti

Claid · 2023-02-09T10:15:33.925Z

onthebannedwagon:

Maybe it’s just an American thing of a certain generation but “long hair music” use to be a derogatory term for classical.

Must be a generation after the 70s because ‘long hairs’ to my mum’s generation refers to hippies, hence why I thought this would be a thread about folk!

onthebannedwagon · 2023-02-09T11:00:55.814Z

reeloy:

…with all due respect, but vivaldi was a punk, not a hippie…

Steely Dan were punks too!

onthebannedwagon · 2023-02-09T11:22:07.917Z

Claid:

Must be a generation after the 70s because ‘long hairs’ to my mum’s generation refers to hippies, hence why I thought this would be a thread about folk!

Well, I heard it from my maternal Grandmother regarding my father, who became a lawyer after being stationed in Germany during the cold war and never had long hair. I guess my Grandmother was a part of the “greatest generation” she was certainly the greatest Grandmother I could ask for but I think regarded classical music as a snobbish pursuit.

colonel_mustard · 2023-02-09T11:49:50.820Z

Here’s Jascha Heifetz as an old man, playing a bit of Bach on the telly (1971):

The piece (Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. “Chaconne”) was written by J.S. Bach at the height of his creative powers, after arriving home from a big work trip to discover that his wife was dead, and had been for a month. She was fit and healthy when he left, so it came as quite a shock.

colonel_mustard · 2023-02-09T12:44:58.818Z

A couple more.

Here’s a nice bit of Liszt:
Jorge Bolet - Un Sospiro: Allegro Affettuoso [Franz Liszt, Étude S. 144 No. 3]

And here’s some Scriabin, recorded to piano rolls by the composer himself, back in 1910. It’s a bit like discovering antiquated MIDI tracks:

I go through waves of listening to classical music. There’s a great radio station for it in Finland. I’ve tried a lot of stations from everywhere and it’s the best I’ve found:

Yle Areena

Yle Klassinen

Yle Areena - Enemmän kuin ehdit katsoa ja kuunnella. Yle Areenassa on tarjolla radio- ja televisio-ohjelmia, suoria lähetyksiä sekä ohjelmatiedot.

Come to think of it, here’s a famous “tone poem” about a Finnish swan:
Jean Sibelius - Lemminkäinen In Tuonela [Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, 1929]

en.wikipedia.org

Symphonic poem

A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source. The German term Tondichtung (tone poem) appears to have been first used by the composer Carl Loewe in 1828. The Hungarian composer Franz Liszt first applied the term Symphonische Dichtung to his 13 works in this vein, which commenced in 1848. While many symphonic poems ma...

Also, I think it’s worth noting that there are so many different versions of everything out there - recordings of different orchestras and conductors etc. - it can be worth trying out a few if you feel that something’s not slapping, but it could slap. I gravitate towards early 20th century recordings, myself.

goldfarb · 2023-02-09T14:56:31.700Z

can’t go wrong with:

onthebannedwagon · 2023-02-10T12:24:08.694Z

I went and saw some ballet at Lincoln Center last night “21st Century Choregraph” at Lincoln Center. One piece (the only one I liked) used compositions from Du Yun including this piece which was interesting and speaking of metal it had these metal guitar bits which wafted in. I thought they were prerecorded or something until I saw the guitarist in the pit

Dava · 2023-02-10T12:33:04.202Z

Beautiful.

One of the few pieces of music that makes me well-up every time I listen to it.

The same happened to a student when I played it during a music lesson.

onthebannedwagon · 2023-02-10T12:37:44.178Z

I’m glad I’m not alone here in loving that Max Richter piece. I always had this weird feeling of it too easily accessing my emotions. Listening now I once again feel my old friend the frisson stopping by with his best friend mysterious tears peaking in my windows.

GovernorSilver · 2023-02-10T19:18:00.686Z

oh yah this guy had long hair, so his music is also Long Hair Music amiright?

And of course Sexy Sax Man