The "Stump My Music Collection" Challenge
Chris and I are always interested in broadening our CD collection, so I've come up with this game to help us think of what we may have missed. Wanna play?
Post a music style, that you know and like, and we'll see if we have it. If we don't, I'll ask for suggestions, so have your favorites ready.A funny story about music genres ( Read more... )
Post a music style, that you know and like, and we'll see if we have it. If we don't, I'll ask for suggestions, so have your favorites ready.A funny story about music genres ( Read more... )
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So, what do you like? What would be a good first gospel CD to get?
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Ummm... that's all I've got.
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Early 20th century neo-romanticism (e.g. Barber, Vaughan Williams)
Late romantic Italian opera (e.g. Puccini, Verdi)
Musical theatre with primarily classical style singing (Rodgers and Hammerstein, Bernstein, Sondheim)
Musical theatre "pop operas" (Les Miz, Miss Saigon, late Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Contemporary Christian rock (Switchfoot, Burlap to Cashmere, Sixpence None the Richer, Jars of Clay)
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What about Debussy? He is considered the father of
neo-romanticism by some.
Musical theatre with primarily classical style singing (Rodgers and Hammerstein, Bernstein, Sondheim)
Musical theatre "pop operas" (Les Miz, Miss Saigon, late Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Which would you consider "Into the Woods" as being? Any further recommendations?
Contemporary Christian rock (Switchfoot, Burlap to Cashmere, Sixpence None the Richer, Jars of Clay)
We have Sixpence None the Richer, The Echoing Green, and Evanescence. I thought there was some controversy as to the "Christian Rock" labeling with each of these, for the same reason. They all have some band members that profess Christianity, but won't label their bands as being Christian, themselves. Was I misinformed? I'd like them either way, of course: great music!
Jars of Clay has been on the to-buy list for some time now, too. What about the other bands: what are they like?
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The ten-song cycle Hermit Songs is a result of his love for Irish poetry and literature coupled with his affinity for vocal music. In the early 1950s, he stumbled upon several collections of texts written by Irish monks and scholars in the eighth through the fourteenth centuries. Often these men simply scribbled a thought or a fragment of poetry in the margins of manuscripts they were copying...
With the Hermit Songs, Barber displays his skill for solo song setting. Modal melodies and open harmonies evoke the simplicity of medieval monastic life, yet rhythmic complexity and metric fluidity bring to life the nuances of the varying themes and moods in the texts.What about late romantic Italian opera? I didn't see an answer for that one ( ... )
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Barber sounds good. We will definitely check that out.
What about late romantic Italian opera? I didn't see an answer for that one.
Sorry, forgot. Got Verdi. (Sounds like an art music ad: Got Verdi?)
My recommendation in that area is Les Miz.
I read Le Mis' a long time ago, and saw the play, and sang the song in chorus in high school, but I don't have the soundtrack - mean to, though. Have anything out of the ordinary you can turn me on to?
I won’t get into semantics too much. I’ll just say that I let the radio stations define it for me
I have heard all those bands (including U2, which I have but forgot to include) on Christian radio at some time or another. I think there was a really big stink about Evanescence a while back when everybody thought they were a Christian band, then got all mad when they found out they weren't. A lot ( ... )
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So, where should I start?
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The Cambridge Singers have several CDs of madrigals, but a great one to start with is Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers. The King's Singers have also done a few madrigal albums (though they'll sound a bit different, since they're 6 men, as opposed to a bigger mixed group). A good one from them would be All At Once Well Met.
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