What Are You Listening To?

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Haydn and Handel are perhaps the most underrated composers outside of those who dig deep into Classical Music.

 

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Eleanor Steber was one of the first sopranos trained and based in the U.S. to gain success and recognition. She was a regular on The Voice of Firestone & The Bell Telephone Hour. The selections of this disc are all from live recordings dating from 1953-1970.

 

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Listening to Symphony no. 5… which I must admit is the least familiar to me of Mahler’s 9 symphonies.

 

[brianvds]

My visit to the local farmer's market, reported here: https://creativespark.art/threads/what-are-you-up-to.5822/post-138817

made me think of this; for some reason, I always associate this piece with the crazy activity of a flea market rather than "festivities" as such:

 

[Hermes2020]

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19th century French songs or mélodie by one of my favorite singers, Véronique Gens.

Véronique Gens reminds me of Arleen Auger.

 

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[brianvds]

Not music as such, but music-related: the time Beethoven got thrown into a prison cell. It's both funny and a bit tragic...

 

[stlukesguild]

My wife is on the phone with the younger daughter again… she calls her every other day. The girl spends most of the time spouting crazy conspiracy theories that she gets from the extremist podcasts she listens to all the time. This seemed like the perfect music to drown out their conversation.