No Seriously 3!!!
Other Classical?
If it wasn't for the constant barrage of mindless advertisements about everything from charities to incontinence pants, Classic F.M would be an absolute gift. The music they play is always a really good cross section of the genre, Smooth Classics is one of my favourite programs on radio, and as a network, they only employ one Twat! David Mellor! I still haven't forgiven him for that god-awful duet he did on B.B.C television with his son next to a piano, that was gut-renchingly embarassing, cringingly awful & just plain shit!!! There is alot of genuinely beautiful music in the world and a good percentage of it would fall into this category. Most big movie scores are recorded by choirs and orchestras, and some of that is achingly beautiful, music by composers like Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, John Williams and John Barrie to name but four. These titans are resonsible for the orchestral scores on the movies, the Pirates of the Carribean, Batman Dark Night, The Harry Potter franchise and Dances with Wolves respectively.
If you ever feel a need to 'get into' classical music, the sountrack albums from any of these guys films would be a most excellent place to start. Classical music that crosses a wide range of emotion, from powerful, thumping excitment themes to hauntingly sad ones. These men truley know there craft and they know how to give a movie exactly what it needs to become a truely great film. The great thing about Classic FM is their ponseonce for intermingerling modern movie music in with hardcore classical. Where as B.B.C Radio 3 are alot more snobby about what they play and a movie score seldome makes it to the play list. As for classical music 'Live', the only thing that tends to be a limitation are venues. You can't cram an orchestra into a fleapit! Theatres have to be fairly huge to accomodate such gigs but there have been some real classical music events in recent years. John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra ( or L.S.O ) did a Star Wars combination concert with an exibition of props, costumes and memorabilia at londons Royal Festival Hall last year which, by all accounts, was said to be fairly awsome. Depends largely on whether on not, this stuff floats your boat, I can comfortably say I would have loved it but, at the time, I had a pressing enguagement elsewhere. :-((
Ballet.
Once You've seen one ballet, you've pretty much seen them all. Unless your a ballet teacher, I can't imagine you'll be able to really tell the difference between how the dances move in one ballet and another. The sets and costumes will be different, as will the music but the general feel of the whole thing is, well for me anyway, boring as hell and a little bit ridiculous. Horses for courses I suppose, but if you need a really good sleep, then any ballet at any venue in the land would be ideal. Mind you, at £50 a ticket, it's hardly cost effective for a 'bit of a kip'. I have to say though, all that prancing around, in tights, I find the whole medium of dance and ballet to be more than moderately protentious and rather silly.
Opera
Mostly sung in italian by fat italians, avoid!!!! There is more to it than that I suppose but it's such an awful noise that I can't ever get into it enough to try and disypher what it is that they're warbling on about. Puccini was the closest I actually came to appreciating opera, because at least there is a tune in there somewhere. Mozart did the occasional opera as well but even he cauldn't define it as anything else than some lardy italian wind bag moaning on at length about death, desease and dispare. Blimey, no wonder I cauldn't get into it. Harry Enfield had a t.v program called 'appreciating oprea' a while ago. He said at the beginning of the series that he wanted to share his love for this underated art form. No need to share it Harry, you're more than welcome to it. Enjoy.
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