[Tokolosh]

I love Sibelius

Sibelius: Piano Music, Vol. 1 - 3.
They are all brilliant, but Vol. 1 is my favorite.

Vol. 1
Vol. 2
Vol. 3

Here are some good Classical Piano Links.
http://www.carolinaclassical.com/pianolinks.html

[Glice]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

Diamanda is okay. She's interesting at least.
I can't recommend her though when there are so many artists out there that are so much better.
Is she better than Tori Amos? Yeah, by a million miles. Is she better than Kate Bush? Not even close.

I like Bush a lot, but Diamanda is the fucking QUEEN for me. Ridiculous argument, but I do adore Diamanda more than words.

[whorefrost]

i've yet to hear variations in chrome although I should probably check it out as i'm a huge fan of disintegration loops (as my sig may have indicated.)

how about some Cecil Taylor?

[wax]

thanx for all the suggestions.
im checking em all out a bit at a time.
someone tell me a good kate bush album?

[atari 2600]

1985's Hounds of Love
here's reviews from many sources
http://gaffa.org/reaching/rev_hol.html
& a rateyourmusic link for it
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/alb...ounds_of_love/
there's piano in parts & some synthesizers.
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This jaw-dropping album could almost be called the feminine counterpart to Bowie's 'Low': it has the same structure (half pop songs, half prog experiment) but 'Hounds Of Love' has much stronger themes (childhood, isolation, obsession, witchcraft, skating) and is very much its own beast. Footnote: 'Hounds Of Love' + psilocybin = space travel.
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Far and away the greatest album ever recorded. Very few artists can create such vivid images and elicit such powerful emotion through music. The first section of the album, Hounds Of Love, contains some of the best pop songs of the 80's, Cloudbusting being arguably one of the best songs ever written. The string arrangement is flawless, the gradual crescendo of the drums is seamless, the moving, literary lyrics are timeless.

The last seven songs, a concept album entitled The Ninth Wave, tell of a woman stranded at sea, drifting in and out of consciousness, presumably thrown from a ship during a storm. The brilliance is simply beyond words; songs like Watching You Without Me and Hello Earth not only tell a story, but create a scene and bring you to it. There's no way to describe this album other than that it pulls you in and makes you feel the songs in ways few other albums can.

[porkmarras]

Atari did you know that Laurie Anderson worked as a nurse before she became a musician?

[atari 2600]

To quote Johnny Carson, "I did not know that."

She went to Mills College in Oakland before getting an Art History degree from Barnard & an MFA at Columbia in NYC. Maybe she studied nursing at Mills College.

As far as I know she came from a large wealthy family outside Chicago (Glen Ellyn) & left for NYC to become a sculptor & soon became a visual arist & then an electronic musician in the earliest incarnations of the pre-No Wave scene along with compatriots like Rhys Chatham & Glenn Branca. Somebody has a web page selling obscure avant-garde videos & they had one from a loft party in '76 with all three of them performing. I contacted the person & they said they no longer had the video.

[porkmarras]

I was kidding obviously.You still haven't told me if you've heard of this:


The Far Side of the Moon


Robert Lepage/Ex Machina (2000)

Drawing on his obsession with geography, self-discovery and technology, Robert Lepage's latest solo performance explores an inner voyage to outer space.

'A simple, resonating idea staged with such beauty that the result - sensual, emotional and intellectual - is breathtaking' The Australian

'The combination of artfully written and performed monologues and dazzling visual counterpoint, presented in conjunction with a hauntingly plaintive recorded score by Laurie Anderson, succeeds beautifully... a remarkable production' Los Angeles Times

'Wryly observant, poetic and visually stunning. Lepage again reveals himself to be a master illusionist of the stage... a wondrous production' Sydney Morning Herald

Running time is 2 hours 10 minutes, without an interval.

Platform performance at 10.00pm, 19 July, in the Lyttelton. Robert Lepage in conversation with Richard Eyre.

For information and images from previous Lepage productions performed at the National, go to Past Productions in the NT Archive section of our site.

Read the transcription of a previous Platform interview with Robert Lepage.


Director: Robert Lepage
Script Consultant: Adam Nashman
Artistic collaborator
and project originator: Peder Bjurman
Original music composed
and recorded by: Laurie Anderson


Cast:
: Robert Lepage

[Sheriff Rhys Chatham]

Intense solo piano, I'm not sure. My translation of this would some knd of avant-garde key smashing chaos, but I could be wrong.

[wax]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Rhys Chatham

Intense solo piano, I'm not sure. My translation of this would some knd of avant-garde key smashing chaos, but I could be wrong.

no, not at all.
classical is more of what i was thinking, not that i care if its not, but i did have that in mind when i first asked the question.
someone with some real talent and passion playing an amzing composition with alot of skill.
i actualy dont know.
its wierd when yu dont know what you want. i usualy know what i want.
im thinking a bit dark. in minor. thunder and lightning.

[Sheriff Rhys Chatham]

With skill I suggest Frederic Chopin. He's my favorite pianist. It's classical.

[lunberg]

try Ravel and Chopin, arguably the greatest piano composer ever...

Prokofiev is fun too (suggestion diaboliques, sonatas).

Schumann is dark and wimsical. A must hear...

[atari 2600]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Rhys Chatham

With skill I suggest Frederic Chopin. He's my favorite pianist. It's classical.

You mean composer, not "pianist"


as in

the Polish composer that died in the mid-19th century.


Art motherfucking Tatum
Bud motherfucking Powell

BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!
You simply cannot have any fucking goddamn motherfucking recordings where Frederic Chopin plays the goddamn motherfucking piano because it's im-motherfucking-possible, bitch!

What's "classical" is the the IRONY.
YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

***************dillweed*****************

goddamn you lunberg !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
for being so nice about using the word "composer" before I made this post & noticed yours! haha
you beat my post by 3 motherfucking minutes & because I was too busy swearin' & goin' off you goddamn son-of-a-fucking-bitch.

Oh yeah, stop trying to fuck with me in lame & uninventful ways, pork-fucking-marras!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sonic-fucking-spam-a-lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!


I'
ll cut you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
right through your DSL connection!
I'll motherfucking slice 'n dice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[porkmarras]

atari how's life?

[porkmarras]

Are you ok man?????

[atari 2600]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[atari 2600]

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[atari 2600]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[porkmarras]

What's wrong with you?I've seen that atrocity that the the sheriff posted but certainly it doesn't bother me as much as it seems to bother you.

[atari 2600]

destroy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!