RE: Day 853: 5 Minute Freewrite: Thursday - Prompt: concert
Love it - this reminds me of high school, when I was being set up for a blind date with a guy from another school. I knew only that he was brilliant math (my opposite there!) and he preferred classical music, and I thought I heard "Brahms" was his favorite, so I went to the library, brought home "Tragic Overture," and for the first time in my life was moved to tears by music. I became obsessed with Brahms. Finally the night of the blind date arrived. I mentioned my good taste in music early on. Bad idea. "Brahms," he scoffed. "Never did like Brahms. Now, Bach. THAT"S where it's at."
Bach!
Not Brahms!
The man I married had a Grandma Bach who is allegedly a descendant of Johann Sebastian himself, which I don't doubt - J.S. Bach had 20 children - and my husband is from a long line of very musically gifted people.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Off to go hear Tragic Overture - the Georg Solti version is by far the best in my opinion - the most impassioned and dynamic.
Thanks for the memories you unleashed @mgaft1. Those Russian composers are the BEST. I'm also smitten with Borodin...
P.S. No, I did not have a second date with that guy. His last name was Carroll. I didn't want to be Carol Carroll, so the Brahms/Bach mixup worked out in my favor.
Yes, I was miffed that he never asked me out after that!
But he got in trouble in college for random acts of violence over a girl who didn't like him back.
Karma Karma Karma?
I hope your date was just as good of a kisser as he was good at math. LOL
I also love Brahms and not so hot on Bach. Russian classical composers? I like Shostakovich and Khachaturian and "the flight of the bumblebee" by Rimsky Korsakov. At large though I prefer German composers Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss, Liszt, Brahms. Is Brahms German? Not sure, but whatever. I like Brahms and Chopin even though he's Polak. Just kidding about "even though." )))
That guy never did kiss me goodnight.
It got so that I suspected it wasn't just because I got hooked on Brahms vs Bach...
Well, these kinds of people also deserve their place under the sun.
Johannes Brahms was a German composer ...
Oops. And so was Bach. But the Russians, ah, how I love them - Rimsky! Rachmaninoff! I have this CD called "Evening in Prague," mostly Czech and Russian composers, but the symphony Brahms wrote for his wife is on it--ohhhhh, wait, it's BORODIN, not Brahms. (I knew that, once upon a time!)
This is one of the sweetest violin solos ever, and the cello hits low notes like a bass at times. LOVE this song so much. #NotGerman but #Russian. (I really did know that, before my half-century-old brain mixed it up.)
Totally understood (the "even though") - my great-great grandfather left Alt Dammerau for the U.S. and his children hated being called "Polock" - so many shifting borders: was it Poland, Pomerania, or Prussia when our ancestor left?
No matter... here is another fab Russian composer, more recent, the one who looks ready to annihlate someone at a game of chess:
Yeah... That's Shostakovich. Seems we have a similar taste in music. )