hauntingly beautiful music

[Biciclista]

badger I LOVE your avatar

[Pedal Wench]

Lakme's Flower Duet. Easily one of the prettiest duets ever, although overused. Puccini's Humming Song a close second.
I play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata -- that one always gets me.

[oxysback]

A couple of my favorites...

Green The Whole Year Round by Celtic Women (Lisa Kelly is the singer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynIoayxhfRs

A Little Fall of Rain from the Les Miserables 10th anniversary concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptdGPt9wt4

Pretty Women from Sweeney Todd. I love the juxtaposition that this beautiful song is sung by two villains.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptdGPt9wt4

Green Finch and Linnet Bird, also from Sweeney Todd. I like the movie version of this song much better than the play. Or maybe it's the singer that I like better!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Rmi...eature=related

[badger]

badger I LOVE your avatar

I know, I love him, too! I've had him as my wallpaper on my computer for about 4 years now. I don't know who he is, but a friend forwarded it to me and I just fell in love

[Aggie_Ama]

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!

I took music in film and the professor was the same way. I worked hard and had a 97 going into his multiple choice final. He made me come back 100 miles from my grandfather's funeral to take the final or else he would give me a F. My mother asked if he could have me go to a local community college where she knew a professor and have him proctor the exam, the professor said no because he needed me to take his final in his presence. I missed one question.

[Aint Doody]

Grayson--All I have to do is think Linda Eder's "If I Had My Way" to tear up.

If you're interested it's on her Gold album, which has some other beautiful songs, too.

[GraysonKelly]

Grayson--All I have to do is think Linda Eder's "If I Had My Way" to tear up.

If you're interested it's on her Gold album, which has some other beautiful songs, too.

That was actually going to be my next question. Thanks again. Beautiful! I love that woman!

[tc1]

Hmm. You did say 'moved by', not "obsessed by" So, in more or less chronological order
The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia
One Piece at a Time by Johnny Cash-first single I ever bought, started the rockabilly thing for me that continues to this day
Tommy The whole frickin' double sided album by the Who
I'm a Boy by the Who
Behind Blue Eyes by the Who
The Seeker by the Who
Nostradamus by Al Stewart
Please Don't Judas Me by Nazareth
Riverside by the Beat Farmers
Iron Man with Sir Mixalot and Metal Church nothin' rocks harder
Tennessee Waltz
My Baby's Moved by the Hillbilly Hellcats
All Apologies by Nirvana this will be played at my funeral
The River by Bruce Springsteen still makes me cry every time I hear it

[crazycanuck]

TC-that's a cool list ya got dere

Umm..does anyone know a pied piper by chance? You're needed in Hamelin

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7737604.stm

[shootingstar]

Thx for the Pachebel's Rant...it will be a link sent my partner's brother, a piano shop owner/manager ..it's his birthday tomorrow. And he does have music in his blood....he had better he has spoken with the brilliant but eccentric pianist, Glenn Gould who lived in Toronto...about what else pianoes.

I also love Vivaldi's, Gloria in excelsis Deo..more celebatory invigorating music (to me). Another baroque hit from long ago.

Just haven't taken time to know of enough contemporary hits/favs.

My music appreciation is amateurish..based on listening and reading ages ago on baroque era. I had a good friend who became a Mozart freak..she saw Requiem over 10 times. She got me started on baroque.. (I realize Mozart isn't exactly baroque.)

[Pedal Wench]

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.

My degree was in music, but music engineering, and I'm still working as an audio engineer, so it's all neatly tied together. I grew up in a 'classical home' too - my parents still go to the NY Philharmonic, some 40 years later!

[Zen]

I can't believe no one mentioned "Ashokan Farewell"

[Meaux]

Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" makes me bawl. We played it as the recessional at our wedding and I always thing of it and cry. There's a Bach piano concerto that also makes me cry because it makes me think of my dad. There are actually a lot of music pieces that make me cry, it's funny, I'll just get in the car and something will come on and I'll get all teary eyed.

[bikerz]

Great thread! I'm late to the game...

Beautiful and haunting music for me is mostly classical.

- Faure's Requiem, absolutely (although I have heard it at so many memorial services recently that it is almost unbearably sad for me now)
- Bach's Cantata 82 (Ich habe genug) sung by the late, extraordinary, mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
- The duet 'Au fond du temple sant' from The Pearl Fishers by Bizet - I know it's sentimental, but gets me every time
- Mozart Piano Concert #23 - I find the Adagio achingly beautiful
- Bach's Solo cello suites - so mesmerizing
- Bach's St Matthew Passion and the B Minor Mass - all the way through and at a decently loud volume - wow.
- Beethoven's 5th - Andante - I've loved it since I was a (geeky) kid.

Sometimes it's only a few measures that really hit me, other times the whole piece in different ways.

[Meaux]

I've also tried to talk many a bride into walking down the aisle to Mussorgsky's Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition. It sends chills down my spine.

That was my processional at MY wedding! How cool is that? We had a trumpet trio play it. My mom always liked the idea of it too, and I love Mussorgsky, so I went along with it. Both my husband and I are SERIOUS music-philes and wanted to have very untraditional music at our wedding. That's so cool that someone else liked that piece for the same purpose!