Thread: My Symphony Three

Classical Symphony No.46:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNeX-ri_ql8

Originally Posted by Billy

Classical Symphony No.46:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNeX-ri_ql8

Just listened to Haydn's 7th symphony before yours, Billy. You should try doing that sometime, you might learn something and stop stealing the urine!

Billy "composes" dozens of "symphonies" so he can say "look at me, I composed a bunch of symphonies". Clearly quality is the last thing on his mind, otherwise he would have appreciated of all the feedback we've given him, and would take his work seriously enough to spend more than a few hours on each symphony. Can you imagine Beethoven composing a symphony in a few hours? He worked on his 5th for several years. Brahms worked on his 1st for almost 20 years. Billy has an extremely shallow and narrow view of classical music, and he is very unrealistic about how he judges his own "work".

I'm sorry, I don't mean to be mean, but it really bugs me when people don't even have an iota of curiosity to find out what classical music is all about, and they act like the know all there is to know. It bugs me when I hear people say stuff like, "I like classical music, I just can't name all of the composers", or when they say their favorite classical composer is Gershwin (don't get me wrong, I like Gershwin), or worse yet, "I composed 50 symphonies", and they all sound like they were composed by a toddler fiddling on a Fisher-Price keyboard. It's not like the meaning of music is hidden. Just go to Amazon or iTunes and download some Beethoven symphonies, and enjoy listening to them! Easy to do, if you're CURIOUS!

Originally Posted by mleghorn

Billy "composes" dozens of "symphonies" so he can say "look at me, I composed a bunch of symphonies". Clearly quality is the last thing on his mind, otherwise he would have appreciated of all the feedback we've given him, and would take his work seriously enough to spend more than a few hours on each symphony. Can you imagine Beethoven composing a symphony in a few hours? He worked on his 5th for several years. Brahms worked on his 1st for almost 20 years. Billy has an extremely shallow and narrow view of classical music, and he is very unrealistic about how he judges his own "work".

I'm sorry, I don't mean to be mean, but it really bugs me when people don't even have an iota of curiosity to find out what classical music is all about, and they act like the know all there is to know. It bugs me when I hear people say stuff like, "I like classical music, I just can't name all of the composers", or when they say their favorite classical composer is Gershwin (don't get me wrong, I like Gershwin), or worse yet, "I composed 50 symphonies", and they all sound like they were composed by a toddler fiddling on a Fisher-Price keyboard. It's not like the meaning of music is hidden. Just go to Amazon or iTunes and download some Beethoven symphonies, and enjoy listening to them! Easy to do, if you're CURIOUS!

I think you should be as mean as you like - the guy doesn't deserve any better. And yet, here you (and everyone else) are feeding his attention-seeking with yet more posts.

Ignore the idiot and he'll get bored and go away.

In case you hadn't noticed, he hasn't posted anything in four days. He's probably gone, at least for a little while.

I think that he is composing a relentless Octet fuge. So it might take a while.

Originally Posted by Crudblud

In case you hadn't noticed, he hasn't posted anything in four days. He's probably gone, at least for a little while.

He's probably working on his next symphonic trilogy! Oh, he'll be back as long as people give him the attention he craves.

Classical Symphony No. 47:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WakMLpQdHo

Originally Posted by Billy

Classical Symphony No. 47:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WakMLpQdHo

It's better, but it's still bad.

This thread is hilarious! How did I miss it?

Has Billy stopped composing?

Originally Posted by clavichorder

This thread is hilarious! How did I miss it?

You got lucky?

Originally Posted by jani

Has Billy stopped composing?

We can but hope!

I hear lots of great ideas in these works I just crave for some of them to developed, refined a little. Its like each piece is total overkill, and there are the seeds therein for a thousand more pieces. Maybe Billy is ahead of his time, but the pieces presented in this way give me little musical satisfaction and make me crave a sense of direction, some restraint, and some forethought.

It is too much at once, and far too random and meandering to produce much musical enjoyment for me, though I do hear a lot of potential personally.

Originally Posted by tdc

I hear lots of great ideas in these works I just crave for some of them to developed, refined a little. Its like each piece is total overkill, and there are the seeds therein for a thousand more pieces. Maybe Billy is ahead of his time, but the pieces presented in this way give me little musical satisfaction and make me crave a sense of direction, some restraint, and some forethought.

It is too much at once, and far too random and meandering to produce much musical enjoyment for me, though I do hear a lot of potential personally.

I liken your hearing some good ideas to that analogy of giving enough chimpanzees enough typewriters to write the works of Shakespeare. Billy produces HOURS of inane musical ramblings. The law of averages suggests that he would include some 'good ideas' in there purely by accident. I don't equate that with 'a lot of potential'.