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Willie Nelson's Lost Highway
milomorris:
--- Quote from: garycottle on November 10, 2009, 03:11:23 am ---We both know my views on your supposed authority on masculinity. So please belt out another aria because I've heard this one before.
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I've never had a problem understanding men. So I don't understand your response, considering that you wrote:
--- Quote from: garycottle on July 28, 2009, 10:06:01 pm ---However, I should add that my sense of being different was not simply tied to my attraction. I was softer, gentler than the other boys. I didn't want to do the things they did. To me so many things about them seemed unusual and strange. I couldn't relate to them. I didn't understand them, but from the beginning I was interested in them.
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David In Indy:
--- Quote from: milomorris on November 10, 2009, 02:59:30 am ---And the problem with reaching consensus is that different people will look at various elements from different angles, glean different meanings, make different assumptions, etc., etc., etc.
I perform music that is hundreds of years old. There is not much consensus on the way a piece should be played or sung. There's not even consensus on what the composer's intent was in a given work.
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That is something you and I most definately have in common, Milo! I also perform music that is hundreds of years old. Violin, cello and piano. My favorite is baroque. But anything from between 1550 - 1850 is perfectly fine with me! :)
I think the composer's intent is whatever the listener feels in his heart. That is a personal viewpoint of mine though, although I've held that viewpoint ever since I was a kid. No two people ever interpret music in the exact same way. It speaks to the soul. I think the great composers knew this. :)
This is also probably true of today's music, including that Willie Nelson song. Personally I am appalled by it. Others will not be. That doesn't make their interpretation wrong though....
milomorris:
--- Quote from: David In Indy on November 10, 2009, 03:30:16 am ---That is something you and I most definately have in common, Milo! I perform music that is hundreds of years old. Violin, cello and piano. My favorite is baroque. But anything from between 1550 - 1850 is perfectly fine with me! :)
I think the composer's intent is whatever the listener feels in his heart. That is a personal viewpoint of mine though, although I've held that viewpoint ever since I was a kid. No two people ever interpret music in the exact same way. It speaks to the soul. I think the great composers knew this. :)
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My voice is a little heavy for baroque opera...to some ears. My core repertoire has been developing in the direction of basso buffo roles from the bel canto literature: Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti. And the roles are a blast to perform!!
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: bailey1205 on November 10, 2009, 12:28:00 am ---LMAO at the idea of people listening to Willie in NYC.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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It's the first place I ever heard him. He's plenty popular there.
--- Quote from: Lynne on November 10, 2009, 02:38:18 am ---This marks the first time I (English minor, mind you) have ever heard double-entendre used in reference to country music lyrics. American Pie, i.e. folk, yes...country music, no. It's charm is in the fact that it's not that sophisticated.
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Actually, I would say that word play and double entendres are pretty common in country music, not so much in folk music.
--- Quote from: milomorris on November 10, 2009, 03:22:26 am ---
I've never had a problem understanding men. So I don't understand your response, considering that you wrote:
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Don't those two sentences contradict each other, considering Gary is a man?
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: milomorris on November 10, 2009, 03:34:36 am ---My voice is a little heavy for baroque opera...to some ears. My core repertoire has been developing in the direction of basso buffo roles from the bel canto literature: Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti. And the roles are a blast to perform!!
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I'll bet they are! :D
I wish I could sing. But I can't. I sound like an old bullfrog. So I let my instruments sing for me...
I sure do wish I could though!
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