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The Greatest [Top Ten Composers of all time revealed!]
NY Times Blog ^
| January 21, 2011
| ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Posted on 01/23/2011 1:38:09 PM PST by Pharmboy
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To: ConservativeDude
Yeah, I guess my point was that this list has a particular bent. You could add Gershwin for example. But he would not fit in well with the style of the other composers. It should say “Top Ten CLASSICAL Composers.”
To: Brilliant
To: Pharmboy; JoeProBono; a fool in paradise
To: americanophile
No Handel???
To: Lauren BaRecall
“This *is* a pathetic Liszt.”
Great pun!
And it is!
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01/23/2011 2:45:04 PM PST
by
devere
To: DEADROCK
Carulli did for the guitar (including working with guitar makers to improve the instrument’s sound), as Mozart did for the pianoforte.
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01/23/2011 2:50:45 PM PST
by
Lauren BaRecall
(Eric Cantor is my current congressional heartthrob.[v. Hoyer, re House Schedule, CSpan 1/20/11])
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
01/23/2011 2:52:05 PM PST
by
Jemian
(War Eagle! We are the champions!)
To: Revolting cat!
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posted on
01/23/2011 2:55:17 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: Pharmboy
No way. Bartok? Debussy? Stravinsky? I’d replace those with Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Mendelsohn. I’d probably dump Verdi and Wagner as well.
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01/23/2011 2:56:29 PM PST
by
Gapplega
To: eCSMaster
I never saw a picture of Bartok. Funny, I expected him to look like Bela Lugosi. Well, here's one with a countryman who comes close!
Taken probably in the early 40's with (and by!) Fritz Reiner.
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posted on
01/23/2011 2:57:37 PM PST
by
Erasmus
(Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
To: ConservativeDude
I see your Scriabin, and raise you one Buxtehude...
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posted on
01/23/2011 2:57:56 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
To: Pharmboy
Gustav Mahler kicks Schubert's butt down the block on every level.
Harrumph.
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posted on
01/23/2011 2:58:01 PM PST
by
paulycy
(Liberals suck all the joy out of America. Make them stop.)
To: libh8er
Without Bach there’s no Boston. I have three issues with the list; Stravinsky, Bartok and Verdi perhaps I wouldn’t have here and I’d surely make room for Piotr Illich.
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posted on
01/23/2011 3:02:51 PM PST
by
steve8714
(Firing Federal Bureaucrats would have a 1000x beneficial effect on the deficit, maybe more.)
To: InternetTuffGuy
Boy...would you ever piss Wagner off by substituting Mahler for him!! LOL!! [Wagner sez: "THAT Jew???"]
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posted on
01/23/2011 3:04:09 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
To: Pharmboy
To: JoeProBono
To: windsorknot
Yeah...I know...the ones left off that seem to get the most support here are Haydn, Handel, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Liszt and Mahler.
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01/23/2011 3:14:59 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
To: Pharmboy
Nice!
I must confess that you have one upped me! I defer to your greater expertise!
(I will, however, run down Buxtehude....)
To: Pharmboy
I guess it all depends on what you consider to be "the classics". =)
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posted on
01/23/2011 3:26:24 PM PST
by
softwarecreator
(You say you want a revolution, well, you know ... we'd all love to see the plan.)
To: Pharmboy
"Ahhh, Bach!"
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01/23/2011 3:29:01 PM PST
by
dfwgator
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