My understanding is that he was the first true recording artist, recording direct to wax cylinder, while singing into a big cone. Very cool, I’m not particularly into opera but full respect for the achievement.
https://www.wyastone.co.uk/enrico-caruso-the-early-recordings-1902-1909.html
Wow!!!! 😲 Thanks! I've recently come to the conclusion that I actually am into opera. I just couldn't relate, until I suddenly could. Not sure how or when this paradigm shift occured, but likely it started in Milan with nostr:nprofile1qqs2kk5vz892kwjxm3m225e9p38yvjc58auzxm44ayk8rcrdw63hgdcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdshsh5jhn8 a couple years back.
Sadly, I am not at the level required for name dropping yet. Except of course, Caruso now, thanks to you!
Did you see some live? That's probably the way to go to fall in love. I remember the time I blagged tickets to see a chamber orchestra many years ago, I went with my mate and we stuck out so badly in the venue (very ratty looking kidz) but the music was AMAZING!!!! Did you ever see/read David Byrne on music and environment? It's a whole book but basically explains how music genres are designed for their environments. If you see the right music, in the right environment, it works so much better.
I will look it up, don't know the book. Considering the amount of music i once thought was shite, and now love, I've come to be intimately convinced that bad music simply do not exist. Whatever is "bad" to me is just an indication of my limited ability to relate. So yeah, I'd agree on the premise that context is everything in good music.
Ok, nazipunk can fuck off. It will never be good. There's just no way to relate at all.
Every rule needs an exception.
Agreed. In fact one of the worst situations I was ever in vibe wise was recording such a band... It came in as a regular booking and I didn't give it much thought, it was only as the day progressed and we started tracking vocals that the penny dropped. They were fucking shit as well! I doubt they'd be troubling too many people with their noises but I gave them a fake name for the credits. Still pisses me off tbh, the studio owner KNEW they were that vibe. I no longer speak to him and that studio long went under. Fuck them.
Uffff..... Hard !!!! 💔 Fuck them!
I think it was Duke Ellington who said 'There's two kinds of music, music you like and music you don't'. David Byrne takes it a step further...
And with ability to relate is so time and mood orientated. Sometimes we like surprise and novelty, others it's time for nostalgia and familiarity. I feel like I should try check for some live opera now.... It's never really connected with me.
I was gonna add another Duke Ellington quote but so many of these are great so may as well leave the link!
Nice quotes - a raconteur as well as a great Jazz musician! I have to be in a particular mood for Opera too, but I do have a soft spot for Delibes's The Flower Duet and Jessye Norman's interpretation of Strauss's Vier Letzte Lieder - September and Beim Schlafengehen are really beautiful @3:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdRq7ynfkHs
