hauntingly beautiful music

[Crankin]

Not only do I feel untalented, but stupid, too.
I do listen to classical music and even had a subscription to the BSO for 3 years. But, I don't know the name or composer of anything. On the other hand, I don't know the name and composer or singer of any rock music, either. Maybe a few from my teenage years. My husband puts the music on my I Pod, since I wouldn't know what to download, since I don't know who sings what...
This was a definite defect when I taught group exercise classes. People would ask me," Who's singing that?" and I would have to tell them I didn't have a clue; I bought the pre-mixed tapes from my employer and was happy to pay the $!
I never spent time obsessing over records when I was a teen and I can't study or read with music on. My kids on the other hand, well one is a musician and I really doubted his talent until more than one teacher told me he had it. Have no idea where it came from!

[Biciclista]

we're all different, Crankin. I didn't get musically educated until my kids started playing in the High school orchestra. I can turn the radio on to the classic station in my car and my son will name the composers and sometimes the soloists.

We all have our own knowledge focus.

A good percentage of the people posting on this thread are naming popular music. I don't even recognize the names of the bands, let alone the tunes.

[Aint Doody]

Linda Eder's "If I Had My Way." It's about 9/11.

"Look Over There" from La Cage Au Folles

"I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables

They all make me cry.

Susan

[Mr. Bloom]

In my teens, I would play Bach's Tocatta & Fugue in D Minor over and over on the organ...much to my parents' (and neighbors') chagrin. No one argued when I gave up the organ.

I would characterize it more as "mysterious" than "haunting" though.

[Aggie_Ama]

We all have our own knowledge focus.

A good percentage of the people posting on this thread are naming popular music. I don't even recognize the names of the bands, let alone the tunes.

Yup, I cannot name many classical tunes but can name a 60's-80's song artist and title within the first verse sometimes before the words. Until country music went all pop in the late 90's I could name every song and artist. I will put you to shame on the first chords of Willie, Waylon, George (Jones and Strait), Merle, Johnny, Don Williams but can't really tell you Bach from Mozart.

[Mr. Bloom]

Hijack:

For those who like Pachelbel's Canon in D, you might like the Pachelbel Rant

[badger]

I'm musically disinclined, as well. I was forced to take 3 years of piano as a youngster and begged and pleaded with my mother to quit. She told me I'd regret it one day, and I haven't!

I took french horn in highschool band, and while I was okay at it, I was no prodigy. Same with flute later in my 20's. I could read notes then, but it was still more a chore than a pleasure so I quit.

Some people just don't have it, but it doesn't mean we can't enjoy it when a good piece comes on!

[Serendipity]

Badger - I'm with you there.
As the saying goes, I can't carry a tune to save my life (funny saying, actually) but that doesn't stop me from enjoying and envying the talent of others and just about any kind of music.

Also doesn't stop me from singing along but only when no one else is within earshot.

[Crankin]

I enjoy it, but sort of in a background way. I can't sing and never had a desire to play an instrument.My older son was in the band (trombone) and plays the guitar and bass quite well. He can sing, but his voice is undeveloped. He had a band (duo really)that was performing in clubs until recently when his real job just got too busy. I liked going to the band concerts when he was in high school, like you Mimi, but it was so competitive at their school, with all of the kids being required to take private lessons and half of them going into Boston to take lessons from various "maestros." It was nice that the music kids had as much status as the sports, but I stayed uninvolved in that i never was a "band parent." My younger son, while he never played an instrument, knows the name of every song and artist from the 80's until now. We bonded over cycling, which was more in my sphere!
I don't know the name or artists of the popular songs either, although I recognize the songs themselves from the radio. I never buy CDs and don't know how to download music. Someone once asked me if I thought my education had been lacking because I couldn't play an instrument; I was like "what?" No one in my family did!

[beccaB]

Local community colleges probably teach music appreciation classes. It would be worthwhile and very enriching. I would really like to teach a music appreciation class for adults in a community school setting. I just happened to grow up in a classical music home, and started taking flute lessons when I was 9. I have a music performance degree I'm not really using, other than I play in everything as a volunteer! I also like some really head bangin' rock an roll too.

[GraysonKelly]

I second Hallelujah. I saw him sing it in concert here in Oslo this summer, and I had goosebumps and chills the entire song.

I don't know what it's called, but that song with the refrain "You lift me up, so I can climb a mountain". The lyrics are cheesy, the boy band version is awful, but I heard a professional singer sing it solo at a church wedding a few years ago and just burst into tears.

Garden of Gethsemane from Jesus Christ Superstar.

Jerusalem sung by Jessye Norman.

Nothing compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor.

Linda Eder's "If I Had My Way." It's about 9/11.

"Look Over There" from La Cage Au Folles

"I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables

They all make me cry.

Susan

Thank you so much for mentioning the Linda Eder song. It definitely qualifies as hauntingly beautiful. I can't stop crying now. Thank you. For what it's worth, if any of the rest of you haven't heard it I recommend that you do. It's on YouTube

[shootingstar]

Pachbel's Canon is an oldie for me. The building of the music is like walking towards a magnificent mountain.

Gabriel's Oboe from the Movie, "The Mission". I am not religious but the music is moving --wistful, haunting.

If you know the movie about Jesuit priests who live among a particular tribe in the Amazon in 1500's or 1600's (I can't remember.).. Indians plus priests get slaughtered at the end.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?...um=7&ct=title#

Secular images here, not religious. (yeh, the advertising spoils..)
http://video.google.com/videosearch?...um=7&ct=title#

[lph]

Hijack:

For those who like Pachelbel's Canon in D, you might like the Pachelbel Rant

This was hilarious

I'm one of the ones who likes classical music, grew up in a house full of it and can identify at least a handful of composers by their music - but I couldn't name a piece to save my life. They're all called symphony this or quartet that, and they don't have any catchy lyrics to stick in my mind

[uforgot]

Hijack:

For those who like Pachelbel's Canon in D, you might like the Pachelbel Rant

Thanks. Loved that clip.

[badger]

Becca, I took music appreciation as an "easy" credit in university. They knew we would take it as a fluffy course, so they made it so esoteric and hard. I barely passed it. I didn't appreciate the music they threw at us, either. Too bad!