Hello edog101, you have great musical tastes. I will be happy to be your friend. Thank you :-)

hi doggy, cool yule-tide & a great new-years-eve, all the best from hamburg...!!

moin broth, first: xcuse my rough engl. (i just picked it up on the streets...) yeah, when it comes 2 shostakovich - i meant it more humouresk when i say i may share the same taste as stalin (haha) what i just was trying to say - after the critic of the goverment his music becomes not worse - quite the opposit. it was the so called "socialist realism" and so evil it listen like (i a bit ashamed to admit this:) after that "critic & pressure his music becomes quite "firm" and straightforward, see: the architecture and all that, specially the 7th for excample - the first mov. that bolero (no decadent talkin around the corner, no just straight the horror & the terror & the resistance!!) and that kind of bizzarre schizophrenic macabre sense of notorious humour - wow, its like mahler when he brings a german folksong that simple & brutal that u get frighten... like "oh du lieber augustin / alles ist hin" ( schönberg grap a few of this motivs as well.) under pressure, diamants are growing...!

hey buddy, how thinx going. listen 2 shostakovich here on last.fm is a bid of a problem 4 me. i rather prefer 2 listening to the whole symphonie / stringquartet. got the whole lot on cd... so i going 4 "classic" (or should i say: the classic classic (hehe)) just occasional. anyhow, whats your opinion to the 4th. strangely i prefer the 5th (so do i back up stalins critic in the end of the day?????) yeah, often when i think bout shostakovich i found myself in a quite schizophrenic situation. more challenging 4 me are the (late) stringquartetts anyway... all the best 2 u

Sounds like YOU'VE been associating with William Wegman. Man Ray and Fey Ray couldn't spell worth shit, but The Hardly Boys almost made it to the National Spelling Bee.

Wow. I've never met a weimaraner who could spell "pulchritudinous" correctly. They tend to be good with grammar but lousy at spelling.

Greetings to the man who judges Prokofiev's "Larghetto" to be "bad ass", a milestone in musical criticism!

charalambides _ black bed blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZTaiDHqs5s enjoy!!!

ur kiddin man, no joke ligeti is my most loved composer ever....!! his pianoconcerto with aimard is hilarious - that polyrythm drives me mad!!. yeah, ur re right, shostis 10th is very strong. wasn t that the symph he dedicated 2 stalin (i m not quite sure). however, i would compare the 10th withthe 5th (just spontanous spoken now). guess i don t need 2 mention ligetis atmosphere... all the best and good night... (in hamburg its 3:30am) postscript.: that dedication was of cause a bizarre one, and employed in a sarcastic way... (or should i say: zynical...) bye now

seems 2 we have nothing in common. but i m a great admirer of shostakovich. the 7th drives me mad. never hear a more distubing bolero in my lifetime. jaja the siege of leningrad...

lik ur jack

Thanks for the add...great taste! :-)

dog do you enjoy the avant-garde operas of karlheinz stockhausen...

HELLO DOG

hello my friend, please recomend to me some classical music,have a nice day

Salute, if you love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich and you have it somewhere in the top of your charts, you're invited to the Shostakovich-group: http://www.last.fm/group/Shostakovich+l+%D0%A8%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87+l+Schostakowitsch?setlang=en with best regards, П.

Oh! Thank you very much, my friend.

Hey man, recommend to me some classical music composers!

Dear Edog, I was listening to Gorecki's 3rd Symphony (slow sad song) when I saw your icon edog ---lovely dog-person--very interesting and original

perfect name, perfect library.

so, one or more funnels is a nonsense joke made by an italian actor, funnel in italian is imbuto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQwMYcFXhXs, and: "the funnels, one or more” is a little collective which wander around the net. A funnel is used in order to pour through, if used in reverse it becomes a mouthpiece (to be read as ‘loudspeaker’). The funnels accomplish this task for free, only for the sake of funneling. http://www.last.fm/group/imbuteria

we talk french and italian, in fact we are bilinguist, we massacre the english tongue, better in spanish but not so much;•) we are italians and frenchs in da hauz (he he!) cause a love affaire born in swiss... we live actually in italy and italians thinks we are all french, when we lived in france los franceses piensavan que nosotros stubiamos todos italianos.. crazy european people! where you live? cheers! one or more funnels ;•)

violinst, we thinks that! we are a little crew, see at the groups we founds on last for a better knowledge ;) we are very happy to meet a true lover of music ;•) all the best!

we proudly accept your friendship! sorry for our terrific english, but music do not needs much words ;)

lol! nice taste in music! are you a musician? nice to meet you ;) cheers! one or more funnels

Perfect avatar!

I laughed out loud at your reference to Ravel's orchestrations as " booty shaking" :D Though I like Mussorgky's original piano arrangement of "Pictures at an exhibition", I like Stokowski's orchestral transcriptions of Mussorgky's works even better. I don't know how close Ravel's arrangement is to Stokowski's. Its been a while since I have heard Ravel's version. I guess some booty shaking is in order. ;-)

"... Ravel's booty shaking orchestration..." Hahaha... that was hilarious on Mussorgsky's page!

Hey, I understand how that guy that you said "not Copland-esque" to thought that it reminded him of Copland. It has themes that sound a lot like Appalachian Spring (especially the part in the Bartok that sounds like "Tis the Gift to be Simple" which Copland uses at the end of A. Spring). I think if you listened to his works more often, you might actually appreciate it more.

Hi neighbour! Propably you could like my music: [artist]Barbagallo[/artist]... check it out! and let me know what you think... hope you enjoy it! for listen & downloads (for free or paying as you want) & mailing list subscription: http://barbagallo.bandcamp.com/ (please don't delete this message so i'll not send it anymore

Happy Greetings to you, my new friend! Thank you for your friendship... Yes, I reckon that there is a Butterfly on my nose.... he he heh!!! Keep enjoying Life and Music... Love, Peace, and Harmony! Bella (^_^)