Jimi75
October 23rd, 2007, 08:17 AM
Just recently I have watched the movie "Pretty Woman" again. In that movie R. Gere tells J. Roberts in one scene that most poeple cry at the opera. She then cries when watching a Verdi opera.
I think it is like with cheese. As a child most poeple do not like cheese but then when you grow older you kind of get a glance behind the curtains and flavour develops with the years.
I listen to a lot of opera music when I cook. My father was from Sicily (Italy) so I kind of grew up with opera music. Of course I made my jokes and said that those singers sound like Kermit the frog, but the view has changed with the years and so I learned to adore and understand The Opera.
For us musicians it is important to have a diplomatic view on things and stlyes and not to dismiss or ignore styles that may not be our most familiar or most favourite stlye of music (with the exception of Techno music - I guess you agree!)
If you ask me if people cry at the opera or at a classical concert, then I would like to answer that not everybody cries or has to cry to express his feelings toward the music, but I feel that the opera is filled with emotions and drama and that no matter which piece you watch or here it will give you the creeps - which does not exclude the fact that any other type of music couldn't evoke the same.
So - do you guys ever made any experience with that kind of music?
By the way, I have uploaded a little piece of music for your hearing pleasure.
Nessun Dorma - Nobody sleeps
http://www.box.net/shared/taq5o6tsbv
Greetz
Jimi
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I think it is like with cheese. As a child most poeple do not like cheese but then when you grow older you kind of get a glance behind the curtains and flavour develops with the years.
I listen to a lot of opera music when I cook. My father was from Sicily (Italy) so I kind of grew up with opera music. Of course I made my jokes and said that those singers sound like Kermit the frog, but the view has changed with the years and so I learned to adore and understand The Opera.
For us musicians it is important to have a diplomatic view on things and stlyes and not to dismiss or ignore styles that may not be our most familiar or most favourite stlye of music (with the exception of Techno music - I guess you agree!)
If you ask me if people cry at the opera or at a classical concert, then I would like to answer that not everybody cries or has to cry to express his feelings toward the music, but I feel that the opera is filled with emotions and drama and that no matter which piece you watch or here it will give you the creeps - which does not exclude the fact that any other type of music couldn't evoke the same.
So - do you guys ever made any experience with that kind of music?
By the way, I have uploaded a little piece of music for your hearing pleasure.
Nessun Dorma - Nobody sleeps
http://www.box.net/shared/taq5o6tsbv
Greetz
Jimi
:AOK: