Long hair music that slaps

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

Daniel · 2023-02-10T19:31:18.658Z

Check out Sibelius’ Second symphony.

Boxymusic · 2023-02-10T19:34:56.620Z

Ligeti and 2001 - thus space Zarathustra gets the nods, but that music and that sequence couldn’t be more perfectly matched.

knobgoblin · 2023-02-11T03:46:24.288Z

I played Rite of Spring for my 7 month old son a few weeks ago, he was utterly transfixed.

onthebannedwagon · 2023-04-01T12:10:31.413Z

I went to see the National Ballet of Canada last night and really loved this piece by Ezio Basso.

aloud · 2023-04-01T12:43:48.925Z

GovernorSilver:

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

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmamde

Jeanne · 2023-04-01T13:17:39.343Z

She has actually very long hair. Click for acoustic low end dissonance and noise.

NeonMelk · 2023-04-01T14:16:30.287Z

DoS · 2024-01-28T08:24:53.470Z

In related news:

the Guardian – 28 Jan 24

Visionary composer, polymath and ‘true cosmopolitan’: Greece finally pays...

National museum in Athens mounts major retrospective for pioneer of avant-garde music and apprentice to Le Corbusier who was sentenced to death by the military

The re-embrace has seen record numbers flock to EMST, a concrete edifice on a busy boulevard beneath the Acropolis, with hundreds daily visiting the exhibition dedicated to Xenakis’ troubled relationship with Greece, drawn from the archives of the CMRC which the composer co-founded. “Finally a museum is doing what should have been done so long ago,” smiled Eleni Katsarou, 34, an electronic music producer marvelling at the UPIC, a makeshift “computerised musical composition” system devised by the artist to translate images into notes. “He was such a force, so ahead of his time, unique. It’s mind-blowing to think he predicted how we’d produce music, how composers would one day be computer programmers synthesising sound.”

tinara · 2024-01-28T08:54:53.683Z

Funny how generation and geography transform expression. Long hair music was always metal for me and I was hoping to discover some funk metal. And after reading about Vivaldi, it reminded me of Children of Bodom on early YouTube :

Or Canon in D by fun two:

DoS · 2024-01-28T09:05:42.058Z

tinara:

Funny how generation and geography transform expression. Long hair music

Yeah, this is a very twentieth-century or earlier US way of talking about, I don’t know, classical or whatever music that always seems quaintly archaic to me.