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 07/06/2011 08:17:52 PM · #1
Take a photograph of something that represents the THEME or subject of a piece of classical music (defined as music written BEFORE the year 1900, and the older the better). NO "modern" classical; NO modern musicals; NO modern opera. Photographs of people playing music or the sheet music itself are NOT allowed, unless they are what the music is focused on. Your title should be the title of the musical piece. If the music has a simple number code, but is also known by a generic name (eg., Beethoven's Sixth Symphony is also known as the "Pastoral"), please include both.

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title should be the composer and title (in whatever order you think best)

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 07/06/2011 09:33:59 PM · #2
Should be able to guess the musical piece for this one ... ;-)
07/06/2011 09:39:04 PM · #3
Oh, yes. I can Handel that.
Let the Revals begin
Interpret, vividly, The Four Seasons, by Vivaldi, or perhaps
think of the The Quiet City by Aaron Copeland
or my favorite, Jean Sibelius, and the Karelia Suite or even Finlandia!
(There, that would keep the Icelanders and their gorgeous landscapes happy.)
 07/06/2011 09:39:15 PM · #4
Your deadline disqualifies Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, Satie and some of Debussy's and Ravel's later (best) work. And (gasp!), no Turandot?

Maybe 1950, or the end of WWII, is a better place to end it.
 07/06/2011 09:53:05 PM · #5
Oh! Let's go to the opera! La bohème...::beams::

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 07/06/2011 09:57:10 PM · #6
Originally posted by bvy:
Your deadline disqualifies Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, Satie and some of Debussy's and Ravel's later (best) work. And (gasp!), no Turandot?

Maybe 1950, or the end of WWII, is a better place to end it.


Gershwin ?
 07/06/2011 10:01:33 PM · #7
And Leroy can do Eroica... Though, of course, it means "heroic", not "erotic". Not that this will stop him, but...

R.
 07/06/2011 10:04:21 PM · #8
Originally posted by bvy:
Your deadline disqualifies Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, Satie and some of Debussy's and Ravel's later (best) work. And (gasp!), no Turandot?

Maybe 1950, or the end of WWII, is a better place to end it.


i intentionally wanted the "old" stuff. IMO, too much of the "new" stuff is just a flurry of cacophony, noise blurted into the air to assault the ears of the hearers in the name of "art"... and I personally HATE to have it called "classical" (although i admit there are exceptions like Holst and some you list)

But isn't there a rich enough trove to select from pre-1900??

-mefnj
 07/06/2011 10:45:56 PM · #9
Originally posted by bvy:
Your deadline disqualifies Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, Satie and some of Debussy's and Ravel's later (best) work. And (gasp!), no Turandot?

Maybe 1950, or the end of WWII, is a better place to end it.


All good points. I like the topic.
 07/06/2011 11:28:00 PM · #10
and Francis Poulenc. (My theory is that all of bvy's work derives from Poulenc).
 07/06/2011 11:54:48 PM · #11
as a non classical music aficionado, I don't quite understand the challenge- I think due to part that I don't really know the music very well. Do you have a resource the has some example, or even better, a collection of the themes / artists? (I swear, if someone links google.....)
 07/07/2011 12:03:11 AM · #12
yes! music before 1950 - what a fabulous topic.
 07/07/2011 12:18:12 AM · #13
Originally posted by sfalice:

or my favorite, Jean Sibelius, and the Karelia Suite or even Finlandia!
(There, that would keep the Icelanders and their gorgeous landscapes happy.)

Or even better those of us in Finland! The Icelandic landscape is very, very different from the Finnish landscape. They have no trees, we more or less only have trees (oh and water).

ETA, yes, this is a nice challenge to be sure.



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 07/07/2011 12:36:29 AM · #14
Originally posted by PennyStreet:
yes! music before 1950 - what a fabulous topic.


no, no, no... before 1900! ... which i guess is still before 1950 ;-)

-mefnj
 07/07/2011 02:39:25 AM · #15
No Holst, No Mahler, no Stravinsky, no Schoenberg, no Debussy,no Rachmaninoff, no Strauss, no Sibelius? No way. It's gotta include the Romantics and the Impressionists. Why 1900 as a cut off?
 07/07/2011 04:41:57 AM · #16
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
No Holst, No Mahler, no Stravinsky, no Schoenberg, no Debussy,no Rachmaninoff, no Strauss, no Sibelius? No way. It's gotta include the Romantics and the Impressionists. Why 1900 as a cut off?


The first version of °Finlandia° was written in 1899, and obviously Sibelius wrote other music before that.
 07/07/2011 04:59:26 AM · #17
Oh no! Even a 1950 cut off would exclude my favourite classical trinity of Ligeti, Górecki and Penderecki. And Xenakis!
 07/07/2011 11:10:56 AM · #18
30-40 submissions, max!

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 07/07/2011 02:19:20 PM · #19
This is my kind of challenge!
How about you just say: music from composers during the baroque, classical, and romantic periods?
This challenge is so open though. It would be better to do some sort of series and just use a specific composer or period...I mean you have Vivaldi's four seasons, the Messiah which is rich, any opera you can think of (Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Nutcracker, and for those that want neoclassic music also...think of Stravinsky's Firebird: "Daybreak", "The Enchanted Garden", "Lullaby")...it would basically be a free study + add name of appropriate classical piece. You could basically just take pictures of flowers and slap Duo De Fleurs or Waltz of the Flowers on it. Just look at one composer and see how rich his compositions are: Smetana, Dvorak, Prokofiev...I could go on and on. I love the idea...but think it would be better to pick a single composer...or even a single opera.
 07/07/2011 02:24:15 PM · #20
Originally posted by Pug-H:

The first version of °Finlandia° was written in 1899, and obviously Sibelius wrote other music before that.


The attempted expansion of Russian control over Finland that inspired "Finlandia", the "February Manifesto" was written in February 1899, and while Sibelius began to write that year, the piece was not ready to be performed until July of 1900.

He did write about one sixth of his compositions before the turn of the century, but none of his symphonic work is pre 1900. Finlandia is opus 26, of the 112 opuses (opi? opera?) that he wrote. Had he met an unfortunate demise on New Years Day of 1900, he would have been a very small footnote in music history.
 07/07/2011 08:42:19 PM · #21
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
No Holst, No Mahler, no Stravinsky, no Schoenberg, no Debussy,no Rachmaninoff, no Strauss, no Sibelius? No way. It's gotta include the Romantics and the Impressionists. Why 1900 as a cut off?


hey, let's do a PRE-1900 challenge AND a POST-1900 challenge... that way everyone's satisfied ... and we can still separate the cacophony from the "real" music ;-)

i also like the idea of doing a series focusing on a specific "period" and/or a specific composer.

i guess it is up to the SC

-mefnj
 07/07/2011 11:23:12 PM · #22
I love this conversation and could enjoy it as long as we could sustain interest in it.

Realistically, though, most of our photographers might think of 'classical music' as something in which a 'classical guitar' might star. The nuances of composers, let alone when they lived, or what they wrote, would waft gently overhead as a light breeze.

Back to Sibelius, Finlandia of course, rallied the people of Finland during "the war" and is a stirring piece of national music; however, it's the Karelia Suite that will stop me in my tracks every time until it ends & completes its magic.

I was horrified to learn that he, the perfectionist, nearing the end of his life, burned much of his work...
 07/08/2011 02:44:47 PM · #23
Originally posted by sfalice:

Back to Sibelius, Finlandia of course, rallied the people of Finland during "the war" and is a stirring piece of national music; however, it's the Karelia Suite that will stop me in my tracks every time until it ends & completes its magic.

I was horrified to learn that he, the perfectionist, nearing the end of his life, burned much of his work...

And you know what is ultra cool, there is a music festival on at the home of Sibelius during the week 24th - 31st July! So bring it on, I say, I'm on vacation that week
 07/08/2011 08:09:41 PM · #24
Originally posted by sfalice:
Realistically, though, most of our photographers might think of 'classical music' as something in which a 'classical guitar' might star. The nuances of composers, let alone when they lived, or what they wrote, would waft gently overhead as a light breeze.

I have trouble with classical guitar. Yes, there's Segovia, but overall it seems to get a disporportionate amount of airplay on "member supported" classical radio stations. Everyone loves the guitar. I don't want to hear Bach on the guitar -- or even the piano. Harpsichord, please. Another puritanical digression of mine. Sorry.

I need to add Respighi and Richard Strauss to the 1900-1950 list of composers potentially excluded by the OP's shortsightedness [wild grin]. For my money, these two are the greatest storytellers in classical music. Especially Respighi.
 07/08/2011 08:46:26 PM · #25
Originally posted by bvy:
Originally posted by sfalice:
Realistically, though, most of our photographers might think of 'classical music' as something in which a 'classical guitar' might star. The nuances of composers, let alone when they lived, or what they wrote, would waft gently overhead as a light breeze.

I have trouble with classical guitar. Yes, there's Segovia, but overall it seems to get a disporportionate amount of airplay on "member supported" classical radio stations. ...

While one hesitates to attempt to speak for another person, I have the feeling that both BVY and I were indulging in a little



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