learsfool
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| For the Primaluna amp owners .... Hi - for me, it is really up to the recording you happen to be listening to at the time. Since you can switch back and forth between the two modes at the touch of a button, you can decide for each recording which mode you think it sounds best in.... | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only OK Rushton - I'm a professional horn player, and I have NEVER heard of either Maw or the work you mention, a sonata for strings and two horns?? Since it was recorded by Alan Civil, I see, it can't be a really recent work, either. What do you k... | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only Hi Rushton - many people do say that Copland is the most American of composers. He is certainly the most popular, and his music is the most accessible, and he helped define how much American music sounded afterwards, especially in the realm of fi... | |
| Primaluna - Rolling pre tubes question... I don't know about yours, tswisla, but my integrated has 2 ax7's, and 2 au7's for the preamp part of the amp. So Kevin means that you can change just one of those pairs, and it will make a significant difference to the sound. | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only Hi kmccarty and schubert - I cannot resist commenting that when a musician talks about a performance of a concerto, or finding the same, usually the conductor is not even mentioned. Any concerto recording will be much easier to find with referenc... | |
| Jazz for aficionados No problem, Orpheus. As both the Frogman and I have said before, it is often difficult for musicians to discuss these types of things with non-musicians and be understood. I wish I could write as clearly as Frogman does about them; he is defini... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hello again, O-10. Now to explain more about the doublers. Let's take the first four woodwind books in your Phantom list. Woodwind 1 is Flute and Piccolo. Yes, this is technically two instruments, so it is a double. However, all piccolo playe... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi O-10: here is your question: "If this music was written out, do you think the classical musicians could play it, and make the music sound as though it wasn't faked?" I must admit to being a little puzzled here, especially by the second half ... | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only oops - if we are talking American composers since 1940, Lou Harrison and Elliot Carter should not be left out - their works can be found on vinyl as well. | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only A few other American composers you could add to that list would be Roy Harris, Walter Piston, Carl Ruggles. The quintessential American composer for me, however, is Charles Ives. The Concord Sonata is 1939, if that is close enough. If not, then... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi Schubert - as Frogman said, the progress the Asian countries in general have made with Western music is very impressive over the past few decades - it is not specific to Korea in particular (though my Korean sister-in-law would say they are the... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi O-10. Well, I am sorry that I took a jest so seriously, then, though I confess I still am not sure what you were referring to. To answer your question on pit musicians being unbelievable: really the only thing very different about some of th... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi O-10 - I must say, that is a very interesting definition of jazz, and I would like to hear what the Frogman thinks of it. The definition of music is a very basic and good one, too. I am constantly telling my private horn students that music i... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Uh, wow! There have been some very bizarre posts here today, to say the least. Frogman has done a pretty good job rebutting Rok's oddball post of his five points - one out of five ain't bad, as he said. Numbers 1 and 2 are both completely ridic... | |
| What is your favorite Mozart symphony? Yes, sometimes it is very difficult for professional musicians to turn off the critical side of themselves when listening to music. Fortunately, I can usually do this when I am sitting down to listen for pleasure, in the sense that I don't necessa... |