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I didn't like opera when I was 4, although I liked instrumental music... Now I do like opera, although the plots are usually a bit silly. I just like the music.
BTW, a kewpie doll to anyone who can come up with the rhyme to "About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news" who doesn't already know it and without looking it up.
Actually I take it back. Anybody who would get it, I wouldn't believe that they didn't already know it or look it up.
BTW, a kewpie doll to anyone who can come up with the rhyme to "About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news" who doesn't already know it and without looking it up.
Actually I take it back. Anybody who would get it, I wouldn't believe that they didn't already know it or look it up.
...to think that I'd always imagined that G & S is an acquired taste that only the British could acquire (like Marmite)..........
Of course piano is my favorite but opera has some of the [ if not the] most beautiful melodies....I just wish the vibrato could be less in most cases.
I wish I could say the piano is the best but I really believe it is second fiddle to the human voice. Pianos can sound and feel similar[ I hate saying that] but the human voice is always individualistic. Well, at least the spirit behind the voice....maybe the same is true for playing the piano.
BTW, a kewpie doll to anyone who can come up with the rhyme to "About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news" who doesn't already know it and without looking it up.
Actually I take it back. Anybody who would get it, I wouldn't believe that they didn't already know it or look it up.
Well I've never heard the song or know which opera it's from. But the obvious rhyme is
My great-nephew, four years old, said to his father, listening to classical music on the car radio:
"Dad, this music doesn't have any people in it!"
Cheers!
Wonderful!
Actually, I was considering starting a thread about recordings that capture the artist's breathing. I've heard it in both violin and piano concertos. Personally, I find it extremely compelling. It makes the music seem more alive and personal. You can hear their emotions through the rhythm of their breathing. Thoughts?
I feel quite the opposite about it. I find the sound of breathing to be distracting and completely at odds with the sound of the music.
The first time I heard such a thing was in a recording of a classical guitar piece. I thought the recording engineer must have miscalculated the microphone placement, to allow the breathing to intrude upon the music that way. But perhaps it was deliberate. I hope this does not become a trend.
Sharp intakes of breath seem to be endemic among some pianists - you can often hear it in recordings by e.g., Pollini (who comes close to grunting at times....) and Brendel (who also hums occasionally, unfortunately, always out of tune). Pollini's grunting is audible in the concert hall too. I've never been to a Brendel recital to know whether his humming is of Gouldian proportions......
The first time I'd ever heard any pianist breathe aloud was actually my last teacher (who also did radio broadcasts, mostly partnering singers and instrumentalists), but he never encouraged me to emulate him.....
Now I do like opera, although the plots are usually a bit silly. I just like the music.![[Linked Image]](https://forum.pianoworld.com//gallery/42/medium/10968.png)
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However, you have to play it first... 
