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UTUSN

(76,065 posts)
2. You are *so* observant!1 I was about to start another thread (or "thought")
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 10:46 PM
Jun 2016

Maybe because BEETHOVEN makes me nervous. He's sort of overwhelming. See my next thread!1

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
3. Sort of analogous to Mingus and Ellington...
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 11:03 PM
Jun 2016

...Charles always sounds edgy to me...the Duke serenely rises above it all, and always sounds perfect. Love 'em both, but sometimes I'm in the mood for one, sometimes the other. Same With Peter Ilyich and Ludwig von...

malthaussen

(18,298 posts)
6. It depends on what Beethoven, though.
Sun Jun 12, 2016, 09:54 AM
Jun 2016

Late quartets are definitely edgy, first symphony not at all.

-- Mal

jrandom421

(1,060 posts)
9. How could Beethoven put you on edge
Sun Jun 12, 2016, 03:49 PM
Jun 2016

after listening to Symphony No 6?

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UTUSN

(76,065 posts)
10. Maybe my lyrics to the "lullaby" refrain have something to do with it:
Sun Jun 12, 2016, 03:55 PM
Jun 2016

"The wind blows
The sea rolls
The days and nights go by...

And I live
And you live
And someday we will die"

-- (words by: ) UTUSN

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