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SimonSagt!
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« on: 19:16:13, 24-03-2007 »
Just wondered how you guys would classify this - is it classical, crossover or pop - or "light classical" maybe?

And what would Mahler have thought of it, do you think, after just finishing "Alles vergangliche..." in his 8th?

bws S-S!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gwaGgTbyEu4
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John W
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« Reply #1 on: 19:49:46, 24-03-2007 »
Mythodea ..... oh dear  Roll Eyes

I would class it as 20thC film music, in with the material from Lord of The Rings, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Gladiator.......

I lasted a minute and a half. What language are the ladies (Norman/Battle !!) singing in?


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« Reply #2 on: 20:09:43, 24-03-2007 »
I understand your reaction on this choral symphony, Mythodea by Vangelis. I have mixed feelings about it myself.
It sounds a little bit like a duet from the opera that is in commercial (is it Delibes or Massenet, I can never remember) in parta one http://youtube.com/watch?v=xRtTJkgvTnc&mode=related&search=

Also I used to look down on music for movies. What is music for movies, but good or sometimes not so good music.
It is some kind of spectacle. I don't like people singing in a microphone, but they use kind of magnification in big halls (install microphones somewhere). I didn'lt like the use of electric keyboard (I happen not to like the sound), but this is a new instrument now.
On the other hand it is a kind of choral opera and even has visual effects etc. May be Liszt, Wagner or even Mahler would look nicely on such a development. May be even Richard Strauss would take a notice.

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Little Rootie Tootie
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« Reply #3 on: 14:46:13, 26-03-2007 »
Imagine accidently touching the reggae button on yer electric piano in the middle of all that. I hear John Shuttleworth performing this. http://www.shuttleworths.co.uk/
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