Posted on 02/17/2024 1:51:13 PM PST by simpson96
Götterdämmerung by Wagner is 4 hours and 32 minutes long, at 22 it was the first opera I ever saw, did not go to the opera again for 30 years.
” I like the whole opera, but I also like Metallica. Only music I don’t like is Hip Hop and Rap. Not compatible with my culture.”
I probably have one of the most eclectic collections of music one could find . I’m with you on rap/hip hop .
I prefer the Apocalypse Now version of this music.
He was a "classical" composer in the last century who "composed" works such as "4'33," a "composition" that is four minutes and 33 seconds long and consists of three movements, all of which are tacet, or silent, with no instruments playing or vocalists singing. Believe it or not, some orchestras actually perform this "composition.".
Another of his "compositions" calls for one note playing every two or three months, and the performance continues for abut 600 years before it concludes.
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries can keep their Bachs, Mozarts and Beethovens. We have John Cage!
Thanks. I’ll have to download some of his stuff...
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