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#1 ·
Like a book club but for music. How about starting a thread where we pick one piece a week to listen to in depth and comment and observe on it? It would be very interesting to read about other people's thoughts, feelings and understanding of the piece. Great way for people to appreciate the music a little more and hopefully enjoy it.
Thoughts?
 
#34 ·
OK... we have a nomination for Borodin Symphony no. 1. Any other nominations? Just throw out an idea people. I'll suggest Mahler's Lied von der Erde. Now we need 8 more nominations. Let's go people. How hard is this?:eek:
 
#36 ·
No we don't need more nominations
One per week
one per member, working down the list
or it won't work, we'll get bogged down in working out what we are listening too when, and what when we post a response
We need a list of everybody who is interested
then the first person nominates a piece, it looks as though Borodin is a good first choice
We then all listen to it and post our comments
Then the 2nd person on the list nominates a piece.
In the words of Yul Bynner: etc etc etc etc
I agree, I think we need a seperate thread,
Too much of a newboy to know how we achieve this?
 
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#37 · (Edited)
I'm leaning towards the working down the list approach rather than voting every week for something new. It will make it more unexpected and I am willing to try anything. :)

BTW, the list of people who have shown interest so far (in order) are:

Fugue
Vesteralen
violadude
crmoorhead
mmsbls
Clementine
CarterJohnsonPiano
KRoad
Merve
cwarchc
emiellucifuge
Sonata
Petwhac
StlukesguildOhio: Lied von der Erde (Mahler)
Sid James
lou
samurai
Huilunsoittaja
TrazomGangflow
Arsakes
MaestroViolinist
Theophrastus
science: Missa "Et ecce terrae motus" (Brumel)
SottoVoce: Variations for Piano (Webern)
Klavierspieler


Arsakes is technically last, but I still propose going with Borodin and I liked cat pic. ;)
 
#38 · (Edited)
I'm leaning towards the working down the list approach rather than voting every week for something new. It will make it more unexpected and I am willing to try anything. :)

BTW, the list of people who have shown interest so far (in order) are:

...
CarterJohnsonPiano
...
To confirm, yes, I am still in. :)

I agree with crmoorhead's idea that we go down the list and everyone nominates a piece. If we have to vote on them, we will often end up with more "traditional" repertoire, stuff that is less controversial because everybody likes it to some degree. If each person gets to pick one selection, it forces the others to be more open-minded; we may get some more unusual works-that would be very interesting. I often have preconceived ideas about certain composers/compositions, but when I study them in depth, I realize that there is more to them than I had previously thought, and my eyes are opened.
 
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#41 ·
I'm in and I'll nominate Brumel's "Earthquake Mass," though I confess that I don't understand the process yet.

Nominations so far:

Borodin: Symphony #1
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Brumel: Missa "Et ecce terrae motus"
 
#45 ·
I've added the new names to the list already creaded above, but also added the nominations by each person so far too. I suggest that we work down the list from the top. If the next person on the list hasn't selected anything yet, then the choice will fall to the next person who has or, if the poster prefers, they can defer to the choice of another member eg if I haven't picked anything by the time week 4 comes, I could nominate Das Lied von Erde suggested by StLuke or failing that mmsbls's choice will be chosen by default.
 
#55 ·
I'm in for this one.

So what is item 1 and how long do we have to listen to it and discuss it?
Item 1 will be Borodin: Symphony No. 1. Official discussion will be for a week starting on Mon 11th June, but the thread will be still available for latecomers. Item 2 will start next Mon (18th Jun) and is yet to be nominated by Fugue.

I will also suggest that the deadline for nominations be 1 week before the start of the discussion (excepting the first few weeks). After that, if someone does not nominate something, then the next members nomination will be picked as default. There is no proposed length restriction.

I think that availability on YouTube would also be required, though this shouldn't be our only source of exposure.
 
#50 · (Edited)
a couple of additional rules:
- work should be in youtube - my proposal wasn't, so I find new one
- separate thread for works should contain rolling number like #1 Listening Club : Borodin ...
- master list should contain dates like Borodin ... (11.6-17.6.2012)

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and finally separate thread should have link to work like this :
 
#51 · (Edited)
Lets get the nomination thing sorted out once and for all. Half the people seem to be under the impression we're nominating and then voting. The other half simply wants have each member be assigned a week, and we listen to whatever piece that member chooses (thus providing us with more variety of pieces, and less time wasted on nominating).

If you want to go down the list, and have individual members choose a piece for the week, 'like' this post.

(+1 like, from Clementine)
 
#54 ·
I'm happy to have each person on the list make a selection and we listen and comment for a week. When all the details are finalized, we should probably post a complete set of rules in this thread. This thread should probably have links to all the threads that discuss particular works.
 
#60 ·
I've been away a couple of days.
It looks as though things have moved a bit.
The way that I'm seeing this is that we now have our list
We are on our way with the nominations
The dates have been set
All the pieces should be available on YT
We should all check that we have enough money to buy copies of all the music we will be exposed too :lol:

My piece is Relache by Satie
 
#62 ·
This is the list of (potential) participants so far. Should another thread be created with a summary of nomination rules?

Fugue: String Quartet No. 15, Opus.132 (Beethoven)
Vesteralen
violadude
crmoorhead
mmsbls
Clementine
CarterJohnsonPiano
KRoad
Merve
cwarchc: Relache (Satie)
emiellucifuge
Sonata
Petwhac
StlukesguildOhio: Lied von der Erde (Mahler)
Sid James
lou
samurai
Huilunsoittaja
TrazomGangflow
Arsakes
MaestroViolinist
Theophrastus
science: Missa "Et ecce terrae motus" (Brumel)
SottoVoce: Variations for Piano (Webern)
Klavierspieler
Mika
Moira
tdc
 
#67 ·
This is the list of (potential) participants so far. Should another thread be created with a summary of nomination rules?

Fugue: String Quartet No. 15, Opus.132 (Beethoven)
Vesteralen
violadude
crmoorhead
mmsbls
Clementine
CarterJohnsonPiano
KRoad
Merve
cwarchc: Relache (Satie)
emiellucifuge
Sonata
Petwhac
StlukesguildOhio: Lied von der Erde (Mahler)
Sid James
lou
samurai
Huilunsoittaja
TrazomGangflow
Arsakes
MaestroViolinist
Theophrastus
science: Missa "Et ecce terrae motus" (Brumel)
SottoVoce: Variations for Piano (Webern)
Klavierspieler
Mika
Moira
tdc
Kevin Pearson
You might as well add me since I have already participated in the first week's listing.

Kevin
 
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