Genre Survivor Round 11

Now that the classical thread is something that exists, I may start posting a video a day in there (and, after I posted today, other folks did, too). So, while I definitely don't expect any sort of massive groundswell of classical fandom on Inforoo dot com, if there's discussion you want to have, come join the fun!

FUCKIN HEAVY

Yeah I don't disagree about that point. I would personally like to see country go now but this is a board that loves Kacey and Dolly and, uh, George Strait sometimes.

What about Classical Gas? That was a 1968 song on a single (B side is Long Time Blues). It’s a guitar piece but Wikipedia genres it within Baroque Pop and even Classical Crossover.

From that era, Fanfare for the Common Man (Copeland) as performed by ELP and certainly their interpretation of The Great Gates of Kiev (Mussorsky) are exceptional classical pieces done by the one rock band that could do it. On Works Volume 1 besides Fanfare for the Common Man which is attributed to the band, Keith Emerson has a Piano Concerto piece with 3 movements, and on the Carl Palmer side (side 3 of the double album) he does The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits (Sergei Prokofiev) and Two Part Invention in D minor (Bach).

They did a bunch of other shit including going bankrupt by taking an entire orchestra (70 hand picked musicians) on tour with them in 1977 and having to call it off after the 10th show. Only Montreal was recorded :/

Where classical touches rock is a higher plane than where country touches it. Everest vs Death Valley.

There’s no end to my life, no beginning to my death. Death is life. Classical bra.

You haven't lived until you've rolled face at the opera. 

There's plenty of good/really good country music out there

Lol. I don’t even know 20 Country songs off the top of my head but I might be able to work through it. I used to hate it but have come around on some of the alt-country live with Brandi and Kacey both making Top 2 and Top 7 at 2019 festivals. Johnny Cash Rusty Cage. There’s one song.

What about A Fifth of Beethoven? I’d rather have a 5th of whiskey, but this is what happens when you mix classical with disco. It was actually a #1 song in 1976.

this is one of those stories that probably everybody knows, but beethoven had been deaf for a decade by the time he wrote his 9th symphony. so he never actually got to hear it performed. IIRC someone else was really conducting the first performance, but beethoven was up there with him also "conducting", and at the symphony's conclusion he was several bars behind still "conducting", and had to be notified to turn around to accept the crowd's standing ovation.

i don't know man thats just fucking crazy to me.

Well Mozart used to fart while he played and had an obnoxious laugh (don't know if that's really true but the movies say it is)

Here you go

I saw Carly Rae Jepsen accompanied by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Pretty fun time! Think about how good Run Away With Me is before you vote out classical