Which of these three compositions do you prefer?
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Topic: Which of these three compositions do you prefer?
Posted By: BaldJean
Subject: Which of these three compositions do you prefer?
Date Posted: December 29 2020 at 12:06
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3 different compositions thrown into this mix. take your pick. "but
why these 3?" you may ask. the reason is that I think the best way to
describe what "Zeuhl" is is saying it is a mixture of these 3. "Porgy and Bess": "Carmina Burana": "The Miraculous Mandarin": -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: December 29 2020 at 12:08
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I wondered where you were going with this poll, until I read your post. Very clever! ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 29 2020 at 12:16
Congratulations on the inventive use of 24 poll options for just three pieces of music. 
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Posted By: JD
Date Posted: December 29 2020 at 12:23
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Lots to love in The Miraculous Mandarin" by Béla Bartók, reminds me of the soundtrack to the 60's 'Lost In Space' episodes. And who doesn't love the bravado of Gershwin. But I bought my first Carl Orff LP around 1973 and guess what, it was Carmina Burana - Philadelphia Orchestra Eugene Ormandy Conducting (Columbia M 31839) and I still have it today. Carl gets my vote. ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: December 29 2020 at 12:24
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Orff, of courff. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: December 29 2020 at 12:33
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I like Porgy and Bess, performed by Miles Davis......I'll pick option one (1) I suppose. -------------   
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Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: December 29 2020 at 12:48
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The other two are very good and cinematic, but Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is just my thing! It sounds like an epic metal music (including some interludes), with a classical sound. As a metal music fan, you just can do nothing but get hooked on O Fortuna, when you first hear it. (It doesn't matter in which order you meet them, cause if you're a real metal music fan, it should have a solid background.) Majestic!!! Verdi's Requiem: "Dies irae" also sounds very metal. Symphony X (a prog metal band) has a rendition of this part as the intro (prelude) of their album: V. Very good, but I prefer the original. I don't want to comment on Therion's rendition of O Fortuna. OK, I want to do it. It sounds horrible, haha. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 29 2020 at 15:05
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My traditional favourite of these is Carmine Burana, which I have listened to so many times. It’s one of the first CDs I had, which was often double-bilked with Holst’s The Planets which also has cinematic qualities. “O Fortuna” was the original hook, but I love the whole thing, and actually can still much of it. With O Fortuna, it reminded me of films and music such as Jerry Goldsmith’s The Omen soundtrack. And methinks it was used in a John Boorman’s (he of Zardoz infamy) Exacalibur which I loved. Prog y and Bess just got blasted in the house one too many times. It’s wonderful music, but my dad, who was hard of hearing due to an explosion when he was army, would play it very loudly and very often. We lived in a house with a fair sized yard, but the neighbors complained about that one specifically. Somehow they never complained when he was blasting Brahms. That said, I’m voting for the Bartok which I haven’t heard nearly as much, but highly enjoyed listening to earlier thanks to this topic. And that Verdi is wonderful. Speaking of Boiorman and Zardoz and cinematic, films really did get me very much into a lot of classical. I so love Beethoven’s Seventh in Zardoz, and his Ninth in Kubrick’s A Clocksork Orange and in the short film The Mumbler (Mompelaar or something like that). And the Hunger for the Delibes and Schubert. I love soundtracks. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: December 29 2020 at 15:07
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Know second and third and like them. Probably Bartok a bit more. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: December 29 2020 at 15:11
Gerschwinbartorff is Kobaian for zeuhl 
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Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: December 29 2020 at 15:15
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I'm not familiar with the Bartok piece, but I really like other works of his, so I imagine I would like this one too. Porgy and Bess I have watched in television a couple of times, but it's long time ago now. The one song I still recall is of course "Summertime" which is great (and even more so in Janis Joplin's interpretation). Carmina Burana I have a somewhat ambiguous relationship with. It's obviously very well composed, and the (often modal) harmonic patterns are interesting. However, I have gotten rather tired of it over the years which is probably due to the fact that we performed it in high school. Also, some years ago there was a trend with TV entertainment theme music (at least in Denmark) that absolutely had to sound a lot like "O Fortuna" - usually with added metal guitar and drums. That made me even more tired of it.
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Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: December 29 2020 at 15:35
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I like them all. Probably mi fave is Porgy and Bess, then Bartok, than Orff. ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: December 29 2020 at 15:48
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a little side note on "The Miraculous Mandarin": its debut performance on Nov 27th 1926 in Cologne caused a scandal on moral grounds, and therefore it was forbidden to be performed again by the lord mayor of Cologne, a certain Konrad Adenauer who became the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 29 2020 at 16:35
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Orff for moi. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: April 13 2021 at 15:13
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"Carmina Burana" ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Tancos
Date Posted: April 13 2021 at 16:06
| Bartok for me, then Gershwin. Orff I've heard too often. |