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3 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

An absolutely gorgeous release of the Fantasia soundtrack from the 50s.

 

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That should be in a glass case in a mid-century art museum.  

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On 5/9/2019 at 4:31 PM, Disco Stu said:

The Alpine Symphony is like the only Strauss work I really like or listen to much.

 

I'm not saying his other widely regarded works are bad, just saying the Alpine Symphony is the only one that really clicks with me on a personal level.

 

This is the R. Strauss work that really clicks with me on a personal level:

 

 

Yavar

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7 minutes ago, Thor said:

Too much comedy! Classical music is serious business.

 

Says you with your gay covers! :P

 

On 5/8/2019 at 1:50 PM, Thor said:

Curious selection as a 'favourite', JP. I mean, lovely lady, I'm sure, but hardly spectacular cover artwork?

 

If this is limited to classical albums, why not something more 'artsy'? I love this one, from the Harmonia Mundi 50' set (which has great fine art on most of the albums). A bit "gay", perhaps, but mirrors the aspect of lute music pretty humourously:

 

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I wonder if these original Glass recordings on the Tomato label R valuable?

 

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On 5/8/2019 at 4:52 AM, Disco Stu said:

Well there won't be any Naxos albums in this thread, that's for sure!  :P

 

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Oh God, no!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Leonard Slatkin is posting a series of "bizarre album covers" over on Twitter:

 

 

And a while ago, he had a collection of "worst classical album covers":

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Isn't that the logo for WESTWORLD?!

Why is Leonard Slatkin on TWITTER?😗

Slatkin obviously never saw STAR WARS!

On 8/23/2019 at 2:34 AM, Bespin said:

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Williams has a mullet!😳

On 8/23/2019 at 2:31 AM, mrbellamy said:

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That's just creepy.

Looks like something out of HUSTLER!

 

 

Re: THE PLANETS

the weird thing is the piece has nothing to do with outer space yet it always gets tagged as sci- fi music!

 

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Yes, but you have to go back aways:

 

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I think he started losing hair in his 20s. Even on his first album release, recorded in 1956, a receding hairline was visible:

 

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Sorry, this is all very off-topic.

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I knew I could count on you.😊

So, he dropped his last name early in his career?!😳

Hair today.

Gone tommorow😥

On 8/23/2019 at 2:26 AM, Jurassic Shark said:

Why does B look angry?

If you were a famous composer and YOU went deaf; your disposition might be surly too.

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25 minutes ago, bruce marshall said:

So, he dropped his last name early in his career?!😳

 

Perhaps to differentiate himself from his father, or another jazz pianist at the time also called John Williams. But he went back to Williams pretty quickly after this.

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