CLASSICAL Archives

Moderated Classical Music List

CLASSICAL@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM
Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
Re: Great Tunes
From:
Tony Duggan <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 6 Apr 1999 22:38:32 -0700
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (16 lines) 
Eric James wrote:

>I wasn't aware 1812 was frought with bad tunes.  Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"
>tune has always seemed pretty crude to me, while the similar tune from the
>Choral Fantasia sounds much more elegant.

Kingsley Amis once said Ode To Joy was probably the most _boring_ of all
the great tunes.  I think agree with him.

Great tunes?  The one in the first of the Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances
always does it for me.

Tony Duggan
Staffordshire,
United Kingdom.

ATOM RSS1 RSS2