Just curious as to how much classical music everyone is exposed to.
My radio presets include two classical stations, but my CD collection is only about 10% classical.
I play classical piano, but not formally trained. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not ready for a concert, but can get around a few tunes like Menuet in G by J.S. Bach. I’m with you Bill, not too much classical in my collection. Just listen to it on the radio.
I didn’t read all the choices so I just picked the one everyone else picked. I should have picked the first one tho. I am classically trained in Violin, Piano, and Trumpet. Self trained on classical guitar. I love all types of classical music but of course especially Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven.
I probably should listen to classical more often. It would have a calming effect on me I bet.
Not a big listener of classical music in the strict sense, but I am big fan and avid collector of post-romantic music from Debussy to Stravinsky to Satie to Varese, Cage, Stockhausen, etc. I am a big fan of tape music and musique concrete. As far as really modern stuff I do like the minimalists, the earlier the better. I love Arvo Part who gets categorized as minimalist alongside Philip Glass and Steve Reich, but I find his music to have a much deeper quality.
I probably don’t listen to as much as I should, but I’ve been playing classical piano for years, though, so I’ve been exposed to a lot of it.
Don’t hate it, but usually don’t seek it out.
their are certain peices that i always love, but i don’t know anything about classical music.
does John Williams count?
^Only if its 3:42 seconds of silence… :o
i like Big band a lot more than classical. Maria Scheider’s doing some great stuff mixing classical and big band.
^yeah i’m usually on the wrong side of these kind of things.
i actually enjoy remakes of classic movies and stuff. it drives people nuts.
^haha no CJ you’re right, I was thinking of John Cage…he’s the one who composed the ‘silent’ 3:42 minute piece.
Was it John Williams who composed the music for Star Wars?
yeah. i love all his film scores.
Maybe it’s me but I’ve always felt that Beethoven was light years ahead of his other composers. Other songs (I won’t call them “compositions”) are meandering with no rhythm or connection between parts…he always seemed to do well with that. Of course I’m just some bum that’s how I feel. I always bust out of of “the thoven” when I’m feeling down.
And whenever I see the name “Wagner” I ALWAYS pronounce it as “Vahgnah” like the composer. Like “Robert Wagner” is “Robert Vahgnah” to me. Yes, I know, I need help.
Stevo
i like it from time to time. I’m an entirely self-taught musician so to say that it has an influence on me would be a stretch but i do appreciate it.
“Don’t hate it, but usually don’t seek it out”
I went through a phase where all I bought was Classical music, and I did manage to amass quite a collection. Those Naxos recordings are just so cheap. For the price of one regular c.d., I could usually buy like 4 of those c.d.'s. I was always mostly into the more Romantic era pieces with my favorite composers being Mahler, Shostakovitch, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Dvorak, and of course Beethoven. I like big, over the top symphonies mostly, though when it comes to Beethoven anything is good.
I can’t say with any degree of certainty what percentage of my overall music collection the “classical” music makes up, but I’d say probably somewhere in the 10 - 15% range. I have lots of classical on vinyl because if you go to some big record sales you can often find some damn good recordings for under a dollar.
I still throw on the occasional classical recording when I’m cooking or reading or even gaming, but I’m just not as into it as I once was. My personal most favorite classical piece ever has got to be Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”…particularly that second movement and I think the theme from that movement is reprised in the fourth movement as well.
Don’t hate it/don’t seek it out. Like Jaw, I’m self taught and saying it’s an influence is a huge stretch. First half of YEM is about as classical as I get.
Classical music has never appealed to me in any real sense. Nothing not to like about the actual music or anything … I just think their song titles and album covers suck, right?
This is such a small sample that I don’t believe any statistical conclusions can be drawn from this, but it’s at least interesting to note that there is some connectivity between an appreciation of classical music and an appreciation for Phish’s.
I mean it was always kind of obvious to me since it takes a certain proclivity to ‘stay’ with a composition like Reba, Fluff or YEM, understanding the changes in the composition, being able to follow the common melodic threads, and appreciate it over the expanse of ten or twenty minutes of pretty sophisticated musical complexity. Most classical pieces require the same sort of listening capability.
I was just wondering whether this 2-1 ratio holds up with larger samples of the fanbase. I also wonder how much of this has to do with educational level as well. Wonder if Phish Inc has ever done any marketing research on its customers. Definitely would like to see some of that data. Phish profiling, hah.
^Well Fone, I can tell you this, my taste for classical music certainly helped me get into phish at a time when all I had ever heard about them was bad comments from fellow musicians and friends (all of whom I later discovered had never given phish the time of day). I was lucky enough to meet one guy who really appreciated Phish for what they are, and he let me hear my first 20+ minute YEM. After it was over I couldn’t believe what I had just heard. One of my first comments was, “man, these guys have some musical training…i mean…that composition was intense!” Sure enough, I was right. Most of the boys had been to music school. I was immediately in love…
and then I found five dollars.
^^i think the opposite is true for me. Phish expanded my appreciation for classical music.
Best, of all the 4:33