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‘Ruined this place’: chorus of boos against JD Vance at Washington concert
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Classical music is like any music, some of it is uplifting and beautiful and some doesnt do it for me, maybe you should try it though and see for yourself
I agree but I think its weird some people are attached to old classical music composers. There is newer better stuff or even classical variants like you would hear in Bridgerton. Its painful watching kids playing those horrible scores at competitions just cause its traditional and expected.
Side note: 100% certain it was the songs cause after events I go to yt to check pros play them and it was still awful.
You can say exactly the same about any music
Yes I but i think its gatekeeping and pretentious. The elites just use old classical as their thing.
Opera was originally art for the masses. I get the thing about everyone thinking its elitest but i was brought up by 2 generations of working class people who loved opera and classical music. Worked at the Derby Playhouse, its just elitist because its in movies and stuff a lot
Oh that's interesting. didn't know that. I figured it was expensive since it "needed" and opera house so it was elitist because of pricing. Maybe it just became that way like you said.
100% there's a culture of gatekeeping and elitism all too common around classical music - but it's not the music's fault
Well I spoke to several music enthusiasts irl and we cant tell why anyone would play those ancient scores other than its technically difficult. It doesn't sound good.
I have, my mother used to listen to classical music all the time.
Incredibly dull and uneventful.
not a classical guy, i love death grips, machine girl , post punk and thrash. but i would never say classical is 'dull'. isnt there one that uses fucking cannons??
Tchaikovsky, yeah. Honestly, he's got better stuff than that.
Iirc, Tchaikovsky wrote his 1812 Overture rather quickly to commemorate the defense of Russia against Napoleon and wasn’t too thrilled with it himself. I believe he called it noisy and without artistry, but I’m prone to collecting myths, so please do check my work.
Is "prone to collecting myths" a turn of phrase? I've never heard it before, but it goes hard imho. Makes me wanna build a ttrpg encounter around it.
I was just looking to express my penchant for collecting pseudo-historical stories that I don’t feel compelled to check the accuracy of because they don’t purport to express anything important. Ngl though, I would play the fuck out of that encounter if you made it.
A bit of a cop out, but I've been wanting to tinker with the homebrewery, so I just made a lil 1 page NPC sheet for fun. Not quite an encounter, not even a statblock lol, but I was tinkering so I figured I'd share.
I don’t think it’s a cop out at all. It’s a very good start and I appreciate the work and the quote. It sets me to thinking of a monstrous demigod by the name of Na’scrivas I’ve had rattling around for some time (I made an anagram of scrivener and changed a few letters. Plus, who doesn’t enjoy a good apostrophe in a fantasy setting.). It’s takes the form of a journal that makes its contents a reality at the cost of slowly detaching the writer further and further from reality. The idea is that by the end of the story the reader should question how much of it actually happened, and how much was simply the protagonist going mad.
Thank you!
If you get anything together for na'scrivas, I'd love to see it! I love all the sharing of world building that the internet has brought to the hobby. So many different groups will interact with the same NPCs or locations because their GM saw a post about them online and I think that's so cool. Really adds to the shared language and community of the hobby.
"noisy and without artistry"
So, a perfect song for America
Yes Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (Russian lol) Here's a recording featuring actual cannons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxgYlcNxE8 The piece celebrates the battle and subsequent Russian victory over Napoleon's invading forces in 1812. The original also had real church bells ringing to celebrate the victory.
I think the 1812 overture is supposed to.
There's like six pieces of classical music I've actually enjoyed listening to, that's one of them.
Everything is uneventful if you just let it pass by without trying to understand it.