On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:48:52 EST, "triple_r" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

>
>Or, as Mark Twain put it, "Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is
>better than it sounds."

Or as Mary Macgregor (a friend of my wife) said. "Music to slaughter pigs by".
(No reference to certain atrocities 60 odd years ago)
OTOH his early music is quite jolly, "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg".
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     Stephen

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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:32:22 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>Stephen wrote:
>
>> I dare you not to sing along to Beethoven's setting of "Ode to Joy" (An die
>> Freude).
>
>1. That was Beethoven?
>

Yes.

>2. There are *words*??

By Schiller.
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     Stephen

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>>> I dare you not to sing along to Beethoven's setting of "Ode to Joy" (An die
>>> Freude).
>> 1. That was Beethoven?
>>
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> 2. There are *words*??
> 
> By Schiller.

Mmm, OK. I just played it... ;-)

Simple, yet effective.

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Carlo C. wrote:
>
> > I bought all the cd of Enya, until a few years ago.
> > I have the impression that Enya has *run out of ideas*.
> > Enya continues to copy itself.
>
> Yeah. And somebody complained to me that they took an Enya CD and played
> it backwards and it still sounded the same. Whatever, each to their own.
> I listed to what *I* like listening to, and I'm really not bothered if
> anybody else approves. :-P

Certo! Of course! :-)

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Ah, Enya!
*Caribbean Blue* : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Blue
Engraved on my heart, forever!


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Carlo

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Hmm actually not one of my most favourite tracks on the album (last month or 
so I went onto a torrent site to grab the enya albums because I didn't feel 
like setting up and my cd/dvd drive to rip them and discovered that hey, 
there's a new album! downloaded it, then had to buy it)...Trains and Winter 
Rains, Last Time by Moonlight, O Come O Come Emmanuel (Latin part 
especially), and Dreams are More Precious are (more or less in that order) 
the ones I like the most.  Don't care so much for One Toy Soldier, and while 
My! My! Time flies is enjoyable, it...is a bit out of place ^^

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Tim Cook
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Yeah. And somebody complained to me that they took an Enya CD and played 
> it backwards and it still sounded the same.

I've done that with an mp3...personally, I think it's awesome.  hehe

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Tim Cook
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Carlo C. wrote:
> Ah, Enya!
> *Caribbean Blue* : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Blue
> Engraved on my heart, forever!

Yeah. I've spent many hours watching Geiss while listening to this...

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Stephen wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:32:22 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 
>> Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> I dare you not to sing along to Beethoven's setting of "Ode to Joy" (An die
>>> Freude).
>> 1. That was Beethoven?
>>
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> 2. There are *words*??
> 
> By Schiller.


I love Goethe and Schiller. :-)
What about Erlkoenig by Schubert?


Regards,
bluetree

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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:41:08 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>>>> I dare you not to sing along to Beethoven's setting of "Ode to Joy" (An die
>>>> Freude).
>>> 1. That was Beethoven?
>>>
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>>> 2. There are *words*??
>> 
>> By Schiller.
>
>Mmm, OK. I just played it... ;-)
>

Simple? A choral symphony for four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. But then
you understand Haskel ;)

>Simple, yet effective.

And so effective it is referred to it as the European Anthem.
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     Stephen

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