I only want to know one thing... How is it possible that my music tastes are so odd that given the size of the db, so much of my music still isn't already in there? :D
mudcrow
because you havent added it yet
BrianFreud has set new goal... get the number of untagged directories under 750
nikki_
how many you at at the moment?
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BrianFreud
maybe 950, but some of those have dirs within dirs
yllona
/me is looking at the legendary 1962 recording of "Tosca" with leontyne price von karajan conducting the berlin phil... and just can't muster the energy to add a release with that many necessary ARs :)
that's why you have more music locally than in MB
BrianFreud
lol
yeah, my current must add but don't wanna is Domenico Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonatas performed by Pier-Jan Belder - 38 cd set
least the Scarlatti K #'s are less confusing :D
yllona
i also have the 1979 Aida with mirella freni and jose carreras, again von karajan /berlin phil
itting right on my desk... but hey.
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and another von karajan/berlin phil, pelleas and melisande with frederica von stade
BrianFreud
yeah, on the positive side, none of the remainder is "doh, how do we not yet have that listed?" stuff
yllona
also from 1979
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BrianFreud
lots of classical, or things like John Cage - Works for Percussion (Quatuor Helios), Hector Zazou - Songs from the Cold Seas, or specific casts for musicals (Jesus Christ Superstar, 2003 New Orleans cast anyone? :D)
yllona
that JCS would be the national touring cast for that year
BrianFreud
yes
yllona
if things were back to normal in new orleans i'd just call the theater for you :(
BrianFreud
(cast recording, so even less likely it'd already be entered)
nah, I have the details, just have yet to enter it
yllona
cool. 'cuz there's no guarantee that the theater in NOLA has any records of anything
BrianFreud
maybe the only one I have that does surprise me noone entered it yet is "The Young Glenn Gould: Recordings 1947 to 1953"
yllona
that would be a lot of work to do well
BrianFreud
true... the Gould/Guerrero details there are confused
yllona
and what about the legendary 1964 "carmen" again karajan/berlin phil, with leontyne price.. i'd be certifiably crazy after entering that one
BrianFreud
:D
yllona
leontyne price, franco corelli, and robert merill. pretty much a dream team :)
BrianFreud
this one should be fun, if only for everything being in cyrillic: Tchaikovsky - Complete Symphonies (Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev) (5 cd set)
CatCat
<3
the reason i havent adde stuff is.. cd lockup not working on ppc mac
CatCat is waitign for that
BrianFreud
why not enter them ahead of time, so they're there to find when you do the toc lookup?
warp has entered lots of stuff without toc because he didn't have a working cd lookup.
CatCat
i need the toc to focus on one thing
/lazy
yllona
what about the six disc jaqueline dupre: elgar, delies, saint-saens, dvorak, schumann, chopin, franck, bach, and beethoven. each with different orchestras
warp
:)
BrianFreud
lol, yeah, or I have 4 different Haydn Piano Sonatas sets, each a diff performer - Schornsheim, Brendel, Staier, and Schirmer :P
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yllona
BrianFreud: also sitting in pile nearby -- some phillip glass: uakti and itaipu. have you worked thru these with AR's?
okay, to answer my own question. itaipu isn't even listed in the DB, and uakti has no ARs
There's been a merge and the editor asks the same thing there.
luks
I guess music is classical or not classical, not composers
yllona
thanks srotta
srotta
Apparently it was considered a good choice :P
BrianFreud
I don't know the work, but I'd tend to think of just about anything I've heard of Glass' "classical"
yllona
yes. contemporary classical, or modern classical, if you will
srotta
I tend to think the whole classical vs. everything else expectwhenitsconsideredsuitable problematic. 8)
yllona
srotta: absolutely. it's a mess
BrianFreud
well, 20th centry classical especially, it's much less 'distinct'
yllona
BrianFreud: agreed.
BrianFreud
ie, say Milton Babbitt - "early electronica" or "20th century classical"?
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lol, at least the John Adams I've worked on I've considered classical
yllona
BrianFreud: babbit == classical in my mind, same with john adams synthesizer works
BrianFreud
mine too, but I could see a strong counterargument made
yllona
based on?
BrianFreud
some sort of electronica argument
yllona
and what about tod mahover?
BrianFreud
don't know him
yllona
*machover
BrianFreud
Then you get the funky ones like Uri Caine
yllona
director of the MIT media Lab. composer of the first "computer opera" -- Valis
BrianFreud
based on the book of the same name, by any chance?
yllona
BrianFreud: yes
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BrianFreud
that book (trilogy) drove me nuts
yllona
Uri Caine is a consrvatory trained jazz musician. fully capable of writing in t he "european classical" tradition
BrianFreud
I was thinking more of the recent "experimental interpretations" of Mozart by the Uri Caine Ensemble
yllona
as is wynton marsalis, charles mingus, herbie hancock. i could go on forever here, but i should grab that cocktail :P
have you heard keith jarrett's Mozart solo piano? he can hang too :)
BrianFreud Arie der Königin der Nacht (Zauberflöte) - (Uri Caine Ensemble - Mozart 2007-03-31: Cully Jazz Festival, CH)
BrianFreud
hideous tags yet, but you get the idea :)
Mozart turned jazz and played on piano, drums, clarinet, violin, trumpet, electric guitar, and bass :D
CatCat
cool
:o
yllona
so it seems to me that the MB designation of "classical" is waht Yo Yo Ma laughingly refres to as "Music by dead white guys" :P
BrianFreud
I don't think that's the definition so much as the "easy to recognize" group
yllona
that too.
luks
MB doesn't have a definition of classical, as far as I know
fortunatelly :)
because the discussion how should it be worded would never end
BrianFreud
I think it's more what happens when you take jazz, r&b, and rock, and apply not just concepts from classical, but actually start reinterpreting classical works, and what "classical" is anyhow
yllona
certainly wynton marsallis' and wayne shorter's string concertos can hold their own with teh best in the 20th century canon
BrianFreud
ELO performing Pictures at an Exhibition... I still never am sure how to assign artist on stuff like that
though, I'd still love to just drop the "artist" concept and just rotate ARs... much easier :D
yllona
well aside from the fact that the ELP interpretation is really poor, it providing clarity on the arrangement. it's not muzorsky, but a later (and more popular) arrangement
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BrianFreud happens to like the ELP interpretation :D
BrianFreud
pretty much wore through several LPs of it in high school, lol
yllona
oh it was great in high school, i'll give you that.
and i was in high school when it was first released
BrianFreud
*rolls eyes* lol
yllona
:)
but i just listened to it again recently... it's not gaing well
*aging well
and i *love* ELP. The YES classical covers don't sound so good either after 30 years
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yllona just put together a collection for a friends upcoming 50th b'day.
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FauxFaux
BrianFreud: You can brew coke?!
nikki
sure, how do you think they originally made it?
they didn't have magic wands back then!
creature
Doesn't it come from a magical land of polar bears and pixies?
FauxFaux
I was always under the impression that it started as the blood of Jesus Christ himself.
creature
I've seen it on the adverts, so it must be true.
yllona
nikki: with actual cocaine :P
Muz
Mmm cool refreshing tooth rottingly good cock
yllona
coca-cola can clean an automobile engine block
BrianFreud is quite happy letting the coffee clean him in the morning, and the coke clean him in the eventing