[PenultimateManStanding]

I'm listening to one of Bach's pieces from The Well Tempered Clavier. I spent weeks trying to learn to play it many years ago. The discipline and strength required for classical music is beyond our age. Not that there aren't plenty of young willing disciples, but no one can write like that anymore.

[Daculling]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'N')ot that there aren't plenty of young willing disciples, but no one can write like that anymore.

[JayBee]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I')'m listening to one of Bach's pieces from The Well Tempered Clavier. I spent weeks trying to learn to play it many years ago. The discipline and strength required for classical music is beyond our age. Not that there aren't plenty of young willing disciples, but no one can write like that anymore.

[foodnotlawns]

I play violin in an informal chamber music ensemble with a bunch of hippies in my area. The organizer usually selects baroque music by composers I've never heard of. I ordered the "Death and the Maiden" string quarter by Schubert to play with the group, I think they'll like it. it's about a young girl dying of tuberculosis.

I also pick out baroque tunes from a Bastien book on a piano at home. I can play one note at a time on violin, but playing two lines of music simultaneously on a piano -- now that's a real challenge. I don't know how anyone can do it, but it's certainly fun to try. We can't afford lessons for my daughter, so I am trying to teach her myself. I give her the melody line and turn on the metronome, and I play the left hand side for her. It may not be the best piano lessons, but I suspect this is what music will be like in The Long Emergency.

[peaker_2005]

I'm extremely thankful that music is possible without power. I'd probably be driven insane without at least a little bit of music. I usually listen to modern punk, but I have a new found appreciation for classical music. Most of all, I appreciate that it involves REAL musicians, not synthesizers as most popular music does these days...

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peaker_2005', 'I')'m extremely thankful that music is possible without power. I'd probably be driven insane without at least a little bit of music. I usually listen to modern punk, but I have a new found appreciation for classical music. Most of all, I appreciate that it involves REAL musicians, not synthesizers as most popular music does these days...

[Specop_007]

Classical music isnt all that hard to play.
Writing it of course it another matter entirely.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'C')lassical music isnt all that hard to play.
Writing it of course it another matter entirely.