onodrim

I'm a music major (vocal performance), so I obviously listen to loads of art music. I can also read music, and along with singing I play the piano and trumpet.

I think it would be nice to have more discussion of art music (and you used the term just fine, so don't worry ) on this board, it's just difficult to come up with discussion topics I think.

Some of my favorite composers are Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Shostakovich, and pretty much any of the Russian crowd, but Rimsky-Korsakov in particular. Of more modern composers, I'm a big fan of John Cage and George Crumb, and pretty much anything that Kornos Quartet plays.

Sadly, I've never seen a live performance of an opera at a professional level. I'm currently in a production of Mozart's <i>The Magic Flute</i> if that counts for anything.

__________________
"The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides"
-Carl Sagan