In Spain it is state-owned national radio station. Can not buy any company http://www.rtve.es/radio/radioclasica/ or in Spotify is also a large base of classical music. You can choose and make your playlists
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You are lucky to have RTVE Radio Clásica. I'm not sure whether the full version of Spotify is available yet for users in the US. I think it might be usable for a limited number of hours before payment is required. The premium version is/was supposed to be available in the US sometime this year.
Keep your fingers crossed about your local classical station continuing to broadcast. Both public and commercial classical stations around the country are dropping like flies, the most recent in St. Louis. Here in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, there were two sources of classical FM, a private college with the oldest listener-supported radio station in the country and Minnesota Public Radio. Through the treachery of the college president whose career subsequently had a sudden change of direction, the college station was sold to MPR which turned it into a listener-supported alt-rock outlet. Since the college station had been my classical music choice, the growing hegemony of MPR caused me to reject it as an alternative, even though I'd been a contributor for decades.
That situation led me to explore classical music listening via the Internet. The format of sources such as Last.fm and Pandora doesn't lend itself to classical music because Internet radio is restricted from playing contiguous songs from a recording and most classical pieces are comprised of multiple discreet tracks. A better choice would be the Internet streams from the remaining classical music stations. I am fortunate to have a large classical music library which is the source for most of my listening. I do miss the discovery, though, of new music heard on the radio.
In Spain it is state-owned national radio station. Can not buy any company http://www.rtve.es/radio/radioclasica/ or in Spotify is also a large base of classical music. You can choose and make your playlists
And Mozzarella —-> Mozart. I still think this was a little bit of a "gotcha". Not that people in general know a lot about classical music or care about it at all.
Just as long as the local classical FM station still broadcasts; if that stops, then the situation becomes serious.
Keep your fingers crossed about your local classical station continuing to broadcast. Both public and commercial classical stations around the country are dropping like flies, the most recent in St. Louis. Here in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, there were two sources of classical FM, a private college with the oldest listener-supported radio station in the country and Minnesota Public Radio. Through the treachery of the college president whose career subsequently had a sudden change of direction, the college station was sold to MPR which turned it into a listener-supported alt-rock outlet. Since the college station had been my classical music choice, the growing hegemony of MPR caused me to reject it as an alternative, even though I'd been a contributor for decades.
That situation led me to explore classical music listening via the Internet. The format of sources such as Last.fm and Pandora doesn't lend itself to classical music because Internet radio is restricted from playing contiguous songs from a recording and most classical pieces are comprised of multiple discreet tracks. A better choice would be the Internet streams from the remaining classical music stations. I am fortunate to have a large classical music library which is the source for most of my listening. I do miss the discovery, though, of new music heard on the radio.
Yes, although Boccherini is probably beyond the musical ken of most people. It would be easy to trick folks with many composers' names, especially Italians. Here a few that come to mind:
Spumoni Busoni
Tortellini Tortelli or Tartini
Zucchini Puccini
Pastrami Palestrina
Alfresco Frescobaldi
And Mozzarella —-> Mozart. I still think this was a little bit of a "gotcha". Not that people in general know a lot about classical music or care about it at all.
Just as long as the local classical FM station still broadcasts; if that stops, then the situation becomes serious.
Yes, although Boccherini is probably beyond the musical ken of most people. It would be easy to trick folks with many composers' names, especially Italians. Here a few that come to mind:
That's more than a little unfair, because there was a composer named Luigi Boccherini. He's not particularly well known, and people must obviously hear the name, then the memory of the name fades, and it's confounded with the similar-sounding Bocconcini.
Yes, although Boccherini is probably beyond the musical ken of most people. It would be easy to trick folks with many composers' names, especially Italians. Here a few that come to mind:
Britons are clueless when it comes to classical music with some mistaking Bocconcini - small Italian cheese balls - for a composer, a survey revealed.
The Daily Telegraph
Even so, I'll bet that Brits would do better than Americans taking a similar test.
That's more than a little unfair, because there was a composer named Luigi Boccherini. He's not particularly well known, and people must obviously hear the name, then the memory of the name fades, and it's confounded with the similar-sounding Bocconcini.
Britons are clueless when it comes to classical music with some mistaking Bocconcini - small Italian cheese balls - for a composer, a survey revealed.
The Daily Telegraph
One in three (33 per cent) have never listened to classical music and three out of four (75 per cent) did not know that Elgar wrote Pomp and Circumstance, the music for Land of Hope and Glory.
More than one in four (27 per cent) did not even know he was a composer. A small number, four per cent, wrongly identified Bocconcini as a composer.
Most people were unable to link composers to their masterpieces, the Reader's Digest survey of 1,516 people found.
Nearly seven in ten (68 per cent) did not know that Tchaikovsky wrote the 1812 Overture.
The Welsh were more likely to own a Vivaldi or a Wagner, with 72 per cent owning at least one classical CD compared with the British average of 59 per cent.
Most people (61 per cent) said they liked classical music either a little or a lot, with the older generation much keener than the younger generation.
Gill Hudson, editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest, said: ''As our survey shows, there's clearly an appetite for classical music.
''But I suspect that a combination of uninspired teaching and the elitism that surrounds much of the genre has alienated many people - hence the lack of knowledge of some of the greatest classical music and composers of all time.
''Yet classical music at its best can be moving, life-enhancing and uplifting - and should be accessible to all. National Classical Music day, anyone?''
Even so, I'll bet that Brits would do better than Americans taking a similar test.
I say that's definitely the reason - certainly true for me. Two hours music lessons a week (only classical, only theory, with a couple of sea shanty's on 'singing' days) for four years, followed by the likes of Richard Baker on TV and Radio talking utter bollocks put me right off. Still does really - just listen to Classical FM and see how long it takes to develop an urge to smash the radio or do something very unpleasant and excruciatingly painful to the announcer.
Britons are clueless when it comes to classical music with some mistaking Bocconcini - small Italian cheese balls - for a composer, a survey revealed.
The Daily Telegraph
One in three (33 per cent) have never listened to classical music and three out of four (75 per cent) did not know that Elgar wrote Pomp and Circumstance, the music for Land of Hope and Glory.
More than one in four (27 per cent) did not even know he was a composer. A small number, four per cent, wrongly identified Bocconcini as a composer.
Most people were unable to link composers to their masterpieces, the Reader's Digest survey of 1,516 people found.
Nearly seven in ten (68 per cent) did not know that Tchaikovsky wrote the 1812 Overture.
The Welsh were more likely to own a Vivaldi or a Wagner, with 72 per cent owning at least one classical CD compared with the British average of 59 per cent.
Most people (61 per cent) said they liked classical music either a little or a lot, with the older generation much keener than the younger generation.
Gill Hudson, editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest, said: ''As our survey shows, there's clearly an appetite for classical music.
''But I suspect that a combination of uninspired teaching and the elitism that surrounds much of the genre has alienated many people - hence the lack of knowledge of some of the greatest classical music and composers of all time.
''Yet classical music at its best can be moving, life-enhancing and uplifting - and should be accessible to all. National Classical Music day, anyone?''
Even so, I'll bet that Brits would do better than Americans taking a similar test.
Heard a couple of new pieces performed by the Stuttgart Ballet day before yesterday:
Esa-Pekka Salonnen "Foreign Bodies" which I liked. Very reminscent of Shostakovich and Milko Lazar "Pocket Concerto" which I am trying to find a copy of and enjoyed immensely. (Ballet was mind-boggling good too)
Sir Charles Mackerras, an Australian conductor who played a crucial role in establishing Janacek’s operas in the West; made important discoveries about vocal ornamentation in Mozart operas; and was an elegant conductor of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas and Mozart, Mendelssohn and Brahms symphonies, died on Wednesday in London, where he lived. He was 84.
His death was announced by his management agency, Askonas Holt of London.
Mr. Mackerras (pronounced mc-CARE-ess) was known for performances that were revelatory not only because of their clarity and precision, their astutely judged balances and their consideration of period style, but also because they invariably sounded so deeply felt. He seemed to have an unerring instinct for the right string weights and inflections in Classical and early Romantic works, the right ornaments in Baroque music and the right sense of earthy realism in contemporary scores.
that was awesome!
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