God I love classical music

[vlyons]

I feel my mind getting cleansed of all Trump things dirty and vile. Turn the damn TV off and let the music of the masters fill me with beauty and peace. I listen to WRR-FM - Dallas, all classical, no ads. One of the oldest radio licenses in the country. Right now, Beethoven's Eroica is playing. This afternoon, I got to hear Copeland's Rodeo ballet, Faure, Vivaldi, Scarlotti, Dvorak. And since it's free, the price is right.

Copeland's Rodeo was particularly welcome today.

[El Supremo]

1. I wish I could get WRR in Denver.

I remember their studio at Fair Park.

[imavoter]

2. listen online

http://www.wrr101.com/

[patricia92243]

26. Thank you very much for the link and welcome to DU!

[Harker]

5. Denver used to have KVOD.

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Really great, laid back classical programming, the highlight of which, for me, was Karl Haas's program "Adventures in Good Music." He was a tremendous, passionate teacher.

[consider_this]

3. if you like Eroica...

Did you ever see the film 'Immortal Beloved'?
It's one of my favorite and the use of that piece is amazing - as is treatment of the Beethoven works throughout the film - fills them with such emotion!

[vlyons]

8. yes I saw that movie

But I didn't like it

[consider_this]

9. Really?

Care to elaborate?

[vlyons]

24. I thought the plot ending was non-factual and silly

nt

[BeyondGeography]

28. The BBC did a brilliant film just on Eroica a few years back

[vlyons]

29. thanks

[catbyte]

4. I've found myself listening to classical music probably 75-80% of my time ever since 11/9/16.

Seriously, I saw the election results, turned my tv to the Light Classical channel and didn't change it for a good three months. I started diversifying a little once he started really effing up, but it's still my go-to channel. I am in love with the Baroque Masters--Bach, Handel, Telemann, Corelli, Lully, Vivaldi, Rameau, Albinoni, Heinichen, etc. I also like earlier composers like Michael Praetorius.

[rurallib]

11. I also escaped - some to classical music and some to

old time radio.

I never listened to much before, but now I listen to some every day.
Radio is just really lousy anymore so classical is often the only radio that is tolerable.

[catbyte]

16. I hear ya. If my tv wasn't tuned to the music channel, it was tuned to TCM.

It still is, most of the time.

[Turbineguy]

6. Who can blame you?

I like to think that untold numbers of people will die in their beds because I listen to classical music while I drive the car.

[Useless in FL]

7. I love Classical Music also...

I've been listening to Chopin: Piano Concertos, Polonaises, Mazurkas, Waltzes, Etudes, etc.. while I jog. Helps to keep me sane. I've down loaded music from I-tunes onto my IPod and it helps my blood pressure and A1C.

[Sneederbunk]

10. I recommend streaming WCPE Raleigh-Durham.

[gainesvillenole]

12. Classical Music Is All I Listen To Now

Sirius/XM, among their 100 or so commercial free music stations has XM 76 Concert Hall which is fantastic!

[patricia92243]

25. I get Sirus on Dish Network for those who can't get it on radio.

[bif]

13. It's even better live

We live in the Detroit area and see the DSO all the time. What a wonderful experience.

[LAS14]

14. Glad to see this post.

I was struck by the fact that a recent post asking for most angelic singers, or something like that, had almost no classical responses. I'm used to being in the minority, but it was a little disconcerting to think that DU had virtually no classical fans.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. I would have, but everybody seemed to be into stuff that I either didn't know or didn't like,

so I didn't bother. But for an angelic voice I offer this:

[elleng]

22. I listen to this station most of every day, and often post here. Haydn, right now:

https://weta.org/listen-live

[patricia92243]

27. Angelic Singers and Classical Music sound like two different things - to me.

[vlyons]

34. My favorite angelic singers

the Trio Masks from Don Giovanni

[Blue Owl]

15. Rodeo

Few pieces capture the spirit of the West like that suite -- just brilliant!

[Aristus]

17. I love the 'Eroica'!

I disliked it the first time I heard it. But it's grown on me, and now I adore it. It's my fourth-favorite of Beethoven's symphonies. 5th, 6th, 7th, 3rd, 9th, in that order.

Did you know that most of the major themes in the 'Eroica' were borrowed from a series of twelve contradances Beethoven wrote prior to the Third?

[dalton99a]

18. Have you seen this graphical representation of the artistry?

(The poster "smalin" has a huge collection on his YouTube channel)

[JudyM]

31. Love this! Fun.

Thanks for posting it!

[vlyons]

33. Fabulous

thank you

[LAS14]

35. Do each of the colors and shapes denote something? Like instrument or ....

... instrument combination?

[dalton99a]

36. According to the poster:

The Music Animation Machine display is a score without any measures or clefs, in which information about the music's structure is conveyed with bars of color representing the notes. These bars scroll across the screen as the music plays. Their position on the screen tells you their pitch and their timing in relation to each other. Different colors denote different instruments or voices, thematic material, or tonality. And each note lights up at the exact moment it sounds, so you can't lose your place.

http://www.musanim.com/mam/mamfaq.html

That's how he started out ten years ago - for example:

but in recent years he's been experimenting with different schemes

[LAS14]

40. Thanks! This was really helpful. I'll try to follow this online. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. It's the only kind of music I regularly listen to

or perform. Jazz makes me nervous; most pop is boring, repetitive and unimaginative; and country is so awful it acts on me like auditory tear gas - I want to leave the room. But listening to the music of the great composers clears the crap out of your head; it's like swimming in a clear, clean lake. You can't be angry when listening to Mozart.

[yellowdogintexas]

38. You are so right!!! I would recommend one "Pop" group though: Pink Martini!

I call them 'pop' because they are a regular on Symphony "Pops" concerts. I first heard them at a Fort Worth Symphony pops concert and was blown away.

They sing in 8 or 9 languages, do original music, and their lead singer has the most incredible voice! I think I have seen them live 4 times, and we own all their CDs

They have a channel on Amazon Music. Check them out

[bif]

42. Huge fan. We see them every time they come to Ann Arbor!

They're wonderful live.

[4TheArts]

21. My favorite to chill by,

Is Vaughn Williams' Fantasy on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Practically an out of body experience every time. I sang in a professional chorale in the past and grew to love Faure's choral music quite a lot.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. One of my all-time favorites! I get goose-bumps every time I hear it.

I've sung the Faure Requiem, which is gorgeous - I'm in a professional choir now which does a lot of early music and I especially enjoy performing that genre.

[4TheArts]

30. That's one of the finest

Sang probably every great requiem and Faure perhaps my number two favorite, after Mozart.

[yellowdogintexas]

39. I have many special favorites. Classical guitar is my chill music though

but I have listened to some pieces so many times that I can hear them in my head from start to finish:

Rhapsody in Blue
Rach 2
Hungarian Rhapsody 2
Scheherazade (parts of)

these are the ones I know best. Could I play any part of any of them? Hell no
unless it were a 4th level dumb down and I had about a year to work on it

[4TheArts]

41. I was a classically trained singer

but where I've lived now for 15 years I'm known as the bad guitarist. Just not an instrumentalist. Folk music, especially among friends, is very forgiving.

[Cold War Spook]

32. Until I got my driver's license I didn't know there was anything but classical music.

We always had a piano and my father played every chance he got. He started teaching me to play when I was 2 and I started the South End Music School when I was 5. I did like rock and roll and soul but that was in the 50s. I use YouTube since I like to play specific pieces.

[yellowdogintexas]

37. long time listener to WRR! It is my automatic station in the car.

owned by the City of Dallas and broadcasts the Dallas City Council meetings. I live in Fort Worth so when I turn on the car radio and it's City Council day I am very disappointed.

I grew up with piano lessons and was familiar with a fair number of the most well known classical music; my fondness for it has increased over the years. After 20 years of listening to this station, I think I could teach a Music Appreciation course! I have certainly discovered compositions I'd never heard from composers I already loved.
.

It does detox your brain (except on City Council Day)

WRR is 24 hours a day, with 50 minutes of commercial free music every hour. There are a few of those music shows that used to pop up on NPR also. Plus, every four years the station broadcasts the finals of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition live.

There is an app for your phone, plus the website: http://www.wrr101.com/ If you go check it out, you can vote for three of your favorite marches in the March "March Countdown" then you can hear the results in March on the station as they play them starting from the bottom up ...