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Post by admin on Oct 19, 2009 12:45:31 GMT -5
LOL i don't mind dating myself same here - saves on cologne. recession and all, you know.
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Post by i move the stars for no one on Oct 19, 2009 13:13:27 GMT -5
LOL i don't mind dating myself same here - saves on cologne. recession and all, you know.
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Post by palaver on Oct 19, 2009 13:18:26 GMT -5
^(I bet you're ecstatic now that you're single and you can start dating yourself again.) ^^^It's actually quite a chore for me to remember what I was watching in the 90's. I watched much of Doug for the first time as reruns--Disney pretty much killed it after they bought it from Nickelodeon. Their writers stained the show with their poisoned Kool-Aid fantasy. Before that, I was still watching The Wonder Years. Wow, now that I think about it, emo kids were the thing back then. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper[/i] was my first black role model --forget that smug Bill Cosby and these "gangsta" pricks. I'm surprised they never did another TV show like the Dinosaurs[/i]. "Not the mama!" That series was wildly addictive. I mean, thanks to dinosaurs (Earl in particular) I realized as a kid that adults worried a lot about keeping their jobs. It was a dinosaur eat dinosaur world out there. Lol. There was George Jetson, but I wished that neutered whiny man would actually stay fired-- permanently. You have to admit that the animatronics and characters in the Dinosaurs were pretty cool. So was the European music.
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Post by betahat on Oct 19, 2009 14:16:56 GMT -5
All I remember is "Honey, I'm home"
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"I'm the baby"
Though what that has to do with beautiful European music is beyond me. I do tear up at bagpipe music (must be my scottish blood) - Braveheart crushed me the first time, and Battlestar Galactica gets me too. I recently saw Madame Butterfly in Toronto - can't say I'm a huge opera fan, but seeing Japanese and American characters singing to each other in Italian was an interesting comment on our multi-cultural world (is their baby the most famous Eurasian in the history of Opera?) and some of the music was very beautiful. And I love Tchaikovsky's ballet scores.
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Post by palaver on Oct 19, 2009 14:28:03 GMT -5
^I was going to mention Celtic music. But there are so many American and Canadian Celtic bands, that it didn't hit me as being European.
I wonder if we can talk of classical music as being European music? I guess it would only be those nationalist composers who borrowed heavily from folk tunes.
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Post by betahat on Oct 19, 2009 17:40:15 GMT -5
Well I like the romantic composers like Dvorak who have a big folk music influence, but I would consider most classical music to be "European music." What makes classical Arabic or Indian or Chinese music Asian but classical European music not-European? Perhaps we mean it lacks global recognition? I mean, if Abba can make it into the "beautiful European music thread" I don't see why Handel couldn't. Abba is probably better known outside of Europe.
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Post by palaver on Oct 19, 2009 18:15:31 GMT -5
^Classical music is too broad a genre to be described as European. I say that the Baroque and Classical era belong to the Europeans. But with Romantic and Modern era composers, they traveled world, learned from people and taught people who were not European, incorporated exotic scales into their compositions. In other words, classical music became globalized and liberated by trade, evolving into something almost institutional, like the science. It's not like the Olympics, there are no battle of the orchestras. Much depends on what the composer is communicating.
For example, Dvorak wrote the New World Symphony, the iconic soundtrack to the American Midwest. Would you call it European music?
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Post by thesa on Oct 23, 2009 3:53:12 GMT -5
La BrassBanda A very German Bavarian Brass band. They sing in Bavarian, can only make out around 50% of what they're talking about, but they are really great fun to watch live Will go to their concert tonight!!! Yay La Brass Banda -- Autobahn www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4ZhdfOU6sY&feature=related
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Post by scott on Oct 23, 2009 8:20:11 GMT -5
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Post by ChickenSoda on Oct 26, 2009 17:18:49 GMT -5
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Post by toyomansi on Nov 3, 2009 3:54:34 GMT -5
more norwegian music...
I know it's a bit corny, but the melody is so catchy ^^ (ps - the subtitles are misspelled in both languages (on purpose), hehe...)
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