Thank you Judy. I loved it...it plays like a conversation. And I will certainly listen to it several more times. There is little I like more on a Sunday morning than classical.
________________________________ From: authfriend <jst...@panix.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 9:22 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: One More Follow Up --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Thanks Barry, that's what happens when I don't see something > > until 5 years after it occurred. > > On the other hand, there are folks on FFL now who weren't > there for the previous discussion. > > I have a number of beefs with the whole experiment. One > of them is the choice of instrument and music. It's almost > as if the choices were made to ensure that as few people > as possible would be arrested by the music as they hurried > to work. The Bach Chaconne in particular is not a piece > that most people would instantly recognize as "beautiful" > unless they had had considerable exposure to classical > music. I have had such exposure, and Bach is my favorite > composer, but I didn't begin to appreciate the Chaconne > until I'd heard it four or five times. Here's the complete Chaconne played by Gidon Kremer, if anybody's interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJPVnJ8m-Y
