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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.

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

And of course Sexy Sax Man

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Check out Sibelius’ Second symphony.

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

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

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

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

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

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In related news:

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.”

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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:

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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.