Like it or not!

[Dorsetmike]

Chatting with a friend on Skype, we got round to discussing music, I said that after 76 years I know what I like, and see little reason to try and listen to new things, I may listen to a few bars or a few minutes, but if it is not to my liking I don't force myself to try and listen.

His comment was "as you close each door you speed the arrival at the one you cannot help but pass thru"

My reply "I don't look at it that way, I don't see how closing (or failing to open) a door to a sound which offends my ears can hasten my arrival anywhere, opening the offending door may well drive me to that eventual one you mention"

Discuss ...........

[Corno Dolce]

Dorsetmike,

I laud your position in re to what you don't like. I beg forgiveness if I might sound harsh but I found the statement by your *net-acquaintance* as ignorant and unenlightened. I do try very hard to keep an ear and a partial mind open to other musics but there will come a junction in which I will stop my ears from being molested and terrorised by music which insults my intelligence by the use of insipid lyrics, endlessly repetitive I, V, IV chord changes, drum sequences that are all bombast and no modulation, and so on, and on, and on, and on, and.................

[marval]

I have listened to most kinds of music, if I really hate it I listen no more. I still have my favourite genre of music, Classical, but I am open to listening to other music. I am frequently subjected to jazz, it is begining to grow a little on me, but I still have my preference. I am always up for trying new things, but if they are not to my taste at all then the door is shut.


Margaret

[Krummhorn]

My eyes have been widely opened by the many varieties in music that I've been exposed to since joining this forum in 2006. I never really listened to much other than classical before then ... not saying I enjoy everything outside of the classical realm, but I'm open to taking it for a spin, so to speak ... keeping an open mind, I guess.

That said ... I still abhor rap ... and those who "force" me to listen to "their music" (if it can be called music) ... I've never forced my music likes on anyone else - luckily I always keep a loud organ CD in my car's CD changer, and with my 160 watt 8 speaker system, I can "retort" back to the rap-crap. . When I do that, I usually receive a one fingered jesture and then they yell "turn down that crap!" Win some, lose some

[JHC]

I'm with you jokers, the majority of to-days music is awful 'to my ears' believe me I have tried out some of these so called composers but they are way out, I feel that they are incapable of composing decent music and have to resort to shocking us into acceptance. there are the exceptions, it is not dissonance that gets to me because a lot of choral music contains plenty, Arvo Part for Example uses dissonance but it seems more acceptable in choral.

[Corno Dolce]

Hi J.H.C.

Arvo Pärt wrote a glorious piece entitled *Berliner Messe* which has been recorded on the ECM label. On that particular cd you'll find not a single dissonant piece. Yes, he has written many dissonant works but he seems to be working with consonant music these days...so to speak.

Henryk Gorecki's Symphony Nr. 3 is a very clean break from his really dissonantly atonal past:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WurHlnQwEVY

[JHC]

Hi CD, I do have his Berliner Mass on a Hyperion label, by Polyphony and Stephen Layton.
Also: Beatus which contains some glorious music with the Estonian Phil Chamber choir- Tonu Kaljuste.
Another one with the Estonia National Chamber choir and Chamber orch again with Tonu Kaljuste.
A fabulous Instrumental CD called “Alina” a work for Piano, Cello and Violin in various combinations they are minimalist works but so riveting, I absolutely love his present music but not his early works.
I heard Gorecki’s 3rd many years ago and did not like it I must revisit it, as your tastes do change over the years