Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

@saugertiesbob 

God, I wish I had half the time you all have to come up with these thread topics that generate thousands of hours of down the rabbit hole minutia, Maybe when I’m retired and have done everything else I plan to and literally find myself waking up one day thinking "hmmm...what can I post that will then keep me engaged for a few months and hundred of hours of my life"...

 

For me, music is by far, the best art form there is.

Listening to music is not a casual experience for me. I become entirely engrossed while listening to music, and transported emotionally, intellectually, mentally. 

Since I am nearly obsessed with music, that near obsession extends to discussing and reading about music, and hearing what other people have to say about music. 

It does not take thousands of hours to create or post on these threads from time to time. Not even close. 

And if by coming to these posts, with the possibility of discovering a some great new music, band, composer, musician, etc, is well worth the time. 

The time we use is precious.

You can work for more money or you can read a book any oligarchs will miss because they dont have time nor the passion to read it...

I listen music 4 hours a day, i read 4 hours a day, i walk 3 hours a day...

The most important thing is the book which could have change my perspective and which i can miss ...One book if it is an important one will explode your mind...

I love discovering new music times to times , but what i love the most is listening  the same geniuses again and again for all my life...

I am retired...

But my job was, lucky me, advising people a book useful for their  field of interest...

I miss students...

I meditate more now and if i discover a tremendous important book  i had no student to advise about it ...

It is my only problem and it bother me...

@audio-b-dog 

I liked Peter Grimes when I saw the opera, but it isn't an opera I'd play at home

Playing an opera without video seems to me like going to an IMAX picture theatre and wearing a blindfold!

Bit like buying SACD and throwing away more than half the channels ...

I have lots of opera videos I have not got round to actually watching yet!  And quite a few sound only opera disks, include Solti conducting Wagner's Ring Cycle.

IMAX = another great Aussie invention, overthrowing the conventional wisdom about filming on its head (or at least, its side!)

@simonmoon 

And if by coming to these posts, with the possibility of discovering a some great new music, band, composer, musician, etc, is well worth the time. 

Amen to that, brother!  

@richardbrand 

I had season tickets to the L.A. opera for twelve years. When I listen to operas, I've seen them produced once or twice. I must say, though, that seeing these operas was invaluable. I couldn't listen to Puccini operas until I saw them on stage. And Puccini has to be one of the easiest opera composers to listen to. The same with Mozart. Now I can see the production in my mind and happily listen to a recording. BTW, Igmar Bergman made a wonderful documentary film about Mozart's Magic Flute. If you haven't seen it, it is well worth watching.