SR V: To boldly go where no room has gone before

http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/07/inventing_the_lobotomy.php
and
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080

one more
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lobotomist/program/

Revolting but also intriguing.


Edited by KoS - June 06 2009 at 15:05

Raff wrote: Guys, the Decemberists' gig is on MONDAY... Today, if I'm not mistaken, is Saturday! Rest assured you'll be told everything and more on Tuesday. Earlier on Micky and I went shopping, and had lunch at a Mexican restaurant - that's all.

You aren't seeing them in VA? I just checked Ticketmaster and the VA show has passed...unless I am mistaken.

The Quiet One wrote: Raff wrote: Guys, the Decemberists' gig is on MONDAY... Today, if I'm not mistaken, is Saturday! Rest assured you'll be told everything and more on Tuesday. Earlier on Micky and I went shopping, and had lunch at a Mexican restaurant - that's all. Oh Well, anyways, I've been listening to Hazards of Love again and again, it's really, really good. Just like The Snow Goose(sorry for comparing with Camel!) and maybe some others, it works as a entire 58 minutes piece, and not seperate, few albums can do that so well! BTW: just woke up from my 3 hour nap(siesta)

You should get The Crane Wife and Castaways and Cutouts.

The former has some of the best prog music from them, and the latter has some of their best lyrics.  See my reviews if you have not.

Epignosis wrote: The Quiet One wrote: Raff wrote: Guys, the Decemberists' gig is on MONDAY... Today, if I'm not mistaken, is Saturday! Rest assured you'll be told everything and more on Tuesday. Earlier on Micky and I went shopping, and had lunch at a Mexican restaurant - that's all. Oh Well, anyways, I've been listening to Hazards of Love again and again, it's really, really good. Just like The Snow Goose(sorry for comparing with Camel!) and maybe some others, it works as a entire 58 minutes piece, and not seperate, few albums can do that so well! BTW: just woke up from my 3 hour nap(siesta) You should get The Crane Wife and Castaways and Cutouts. The former has some of the best prog music from them, and the latter has some of their best lyrics.  See my reviews if you have not.

Yeah I've read them, pretty high ratings don't you think? Oddly enough, the CD shop only had Hazards of Love from The Decemberists, I think they're just importing new releases, from somewhat-well-known bands.

However, if I ever see any of those, I will buy them, no doubt about that!

Ricochet wrote: TGM: Orb wrote: Liszt's piano concerto no. 1 is fantastic, in spite of my customary loathing of orchestras. Ave Rob! Who did you listen with? And stop loathing orchestras.

Myself and I, mainly... recording was by Georges Cziffra and the Orchestre de Paris.

I don't really loathe orchestras, I just don't always get what they're doing (Stravinsky would probably be my favourite orchestral arranger), and I don't like the best-known composers (by which I mean, Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky (though there's this one part of Swan Lake that is soooo pretty)) when they're working with orchestras as much as I do when they're writing for smaller groups. And piano trios are probably my favourite classical format. Because I love pianos far too much relative to my ability to play them.

And the other three pieces on this one - Totentanz (paraphrase on the 'Dies Irae'), Piano Concerto no. 2 in A and Hungarian Fantasy (which I'd already heard a few times) were also gorgeous.

Yeah, my classical knowledge is still tiny, but I'm only really just beginning to begin to understand how much people get out of these pieces emotionally. Rachmaninov in particular (this also rounds off the pretentious circle of progressive rock, jazz and classical)


Edited by TGM: Orb - June 06 2009 at 16:38

TGM: Orb wrote: Ricochet wrote: TGM: Orb wrote: Liszt's piano concerto no. 1 is fantastic, in spite of my customary loathing of orchestras. Ave Rob! Who did you listen with? And stop loathing orchestras. Myself and I, mainly... recording was by Georges Cziffra and the Orchestre de Paris. I don't really loathe orchestras, I just don't always get what they're doing (Stravinsky would probably be my favourite orchestral arranger), and I don't like the best-known composers (by which I mean, Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky (though there's this one part of Swan Lake that is soooo pretty)) when they're working with orchestras as much as I do when they're writing for smaller groups. And piano trios are probably my favourite classical format. Because I love pianos far too much relative to my ability to play them. And the other three pieces on this one - Totentanz (paraphrase on the 'Dies Irae'), Piano Concerto no. 2 in A and Hungarian Fantasy (which I'd already heard a few times) were also gorgeous. Yeah, my classical knowledge is still tiny, but I'm only really just beginning to begin to understand how much people get out of these pieces emotionally. Rachmaninov in particular (this also rounds off the pretentious circle of progressive rock, jazz and classical)

Was only asking which pianist and orchestra was playing, not if you were listening with someone or alone. Cziffra, nice!

Don't really know what to say to that "don't know what [orchestras] are doing", but I pretty much guess you don't like music on epic scale as much as chamber and soloistic music. I'm love symphonies myself, especially the grueling complex ones, up to Mahler and the post-romantics, and I'd delve into more from the great orchestrators, plus the moderns.

Congrats to Raff in the quizzes, a propos. Excellent results so far. 

Ricochet wrote: Congrats to Raff in the quizzes, a propos. Excellent results so far.

Seconded.

At this point though, the scores are stunning. Anyone in the top 10 could easily win, or possibly even anyone at all.

MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: Congrats to Raff in the quizzes, a propos. Excellent results so far.  Seconded. At this point though, the scores are stunning. Anyone in the top 10 could easily win, or possibly even anyone at all.

I'll probably finish 15th.