The French Are Coming
OK so they aren’t really, I just wanted to say that because it sounds cool.
I have a thing for French music. I don’t know why. I am fairly uneducated about classical music, because it’s not like I ever played an instrument or took a music history class or anything. But I’ve noticed a trend: i really like pieces by French composers. There’s no rhyme or reason to the other pieces I like, but if it’s French, I like it. Debussy is my favorite composer (well…ok, he and Aaron Copeland are tied). Lakme is my favorite opera. I’m on a Ravel kick right now, because my friend Jessica (who is a French Horn performance major at CCM) lent me a CD of his “String Quartet in F major.”
French music– or at least the stuff I listen to– is very fluid and romantic, soft and delicate, and expressive; it is to the music world what impressionist/expressionist painting (think Monet, Renoir) is to the art world.
I love it. Speed metal enthusiasts can just go soak their heads.
February 14th, 2005 at 12:05 am
I prefer Romanian love songs.
Especially this one
February 14th, 2005 at 9:31 pm
Wow. So that made my day more traumatizing if anything. It’s hysterical though. Can we show it at Focus?
February 14th, 2005 at 11:34 pm
I’m going to try and show it at FOCUS. I have a buddy coming into town on Wednesday and he looks dead on the guy in the video, so I’m going to try and convince everyone that it is him.