Thirty Days Meme: Day 23 - Music
Sep. 16th, 2013 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbitIt's not as wet as yesterday, but otherwise I can't say things have improved greatly. Work was frustrating - boss in a bad mood and I spent the afternoon looking for internet providers and locksmiths and there's only so many times I can listen to Moon River before I go mad. And wouldn't it be nice if people who say they will phone you back actually did so.
So back to Drayce's list of suitable topics. I can eliminate comics as I haven't read any for years - last one was the Beano. And equally books: I'm not reading that many at the moment anyway, but I can never recall having favourite books in the past in the sense of ones I would read again and again. Probably because I read as much non-fiction as fiction, so it tends to be the subject rather than the book itself that appeals. English Civil War anyone?
So, music. I like my music loud, on the whole. I sit at the front in classical concerts so I can be deafened by the percussion and the brass. Inevitably music favourites vary over time and mood, but currently riding high in my top ten are Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto (The Emperor). Add to that Prokofiev's ballet music for Romeo & Juliet, Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Beethoven's 5th, 6th and 9th Symphonies and his Moonlight Sonata.
I also like singing along to Queen, Billy Joel and Simon & Garfunkel. Except my singing is on a par with Eric Morecambe's piano playing - all the right notes, not necessarily in the right order.
So back to Drayce's list of suitable topics. I can eliminate comics as I haven't read any for years - last one was the Beano. And equally books: I'm not reading that many at the moment anyway, but I can never recall having favourite books in the past in the sense of ones I would read again and again. Probably because I read as much non-fiction as fiction, so it tends to be the subject rather than the book itself that appeals. English Civil War anyone?
So, music. I like my music loud, on the whole. I sit at the front in classical concerts so I can be deafened by the percussion and the brass. Inevitably music favourites vary over time and mood, but currently riding high in my top ten are Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto (The Emperor). Add to that Prokofiev's ballet music for Romeo & Juliet, Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Beethoven's 5th, 6th and 9th Symphonies and his Moonlight Sonata.
I also like singing along to Queen, Billy Joel and Simon & Garfunkel. Except my singing is on a par with Eric Morecambe's piano playing - all the right notes, not necessarily in the right order.
