I am finding there are less young people who by classical c.d.’s, go to concerts and play instruments. Doesn’t anybody listen to classical music?

I hope that people continue to learn the discipline of music and develop their talents.

Music definitely does change over time, but I too worry that children are not being exposed to the world of music in a way that allows them to be creative producers of musical forms, instead of consumers of sound.

”Don’t pray in my school, and I won’t think in your church” ~ Anonymous

”The insperation of the Bibble depends on the ignorance of the peson who reads it” ~ Robert Ingersoll

”It is far better to grasp the universe for what it realy is than to presist on delusion, however satisfying and reusuring” ~ Carl Sagan

”The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason” ~ Benjamin Franklin

”It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason, and morality” ~ Baron D’Holbach

”The Bible is not my book nor christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christan dogma” ~ Abraham Linkoln

”The most heinous crimes have been commited under the cover of religion or equally noble motives” ~ Gandhi

”Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people” ~ Thomas Edison

”In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable” ~ Sigmund Freud

”It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god” ~ Adolf Hitler

”Religion easily—has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money” ~ George Carlin

”Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of” ~ Mark Twain

”Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

”Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis” ~ Sigmund Freud

”Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool” ~ Voltaire

”Religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few” ~ Stendhal

”So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk” ~ Thomas Edison

”There’s a lot better people can be doing on a Sunday morning." ~ Bill Gates

”If we don’t play God, who will? ~ James Watson

”If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them” ~ Baron D’Holbach

”A man is accepted into a church for what he believes, he is turned out for what he knows” ~ Mark Twain

” Faith is believing something you know aint true” ~ Mark Twain

”If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods” ~ Baron D’Holbach

”By simple common sense I don’t believe in God” ~ Charlie Chaplin

”Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is God both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?
~ Epicurus

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people” ~ Voltaire

”The moths & atheists are doubly divine” ~ Jim Morrison

”Religion is regarded by the common as true, by the wise as false and by rulers as useful” ~ Seneca the Younger

”In God We Trust." I don’t believe it would sound any better if it were true” ~ Mark Twain

”In no instance have…the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people” ~ James Madison

”Lighthouses are more helpful than churches” ~ Benjamin Franklin

”The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity”
~ John Adams

”Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed” ~Voltaire

”Religion is just mind control” ~ George Carlin

”Atheism is a non-prophet organization” ~ George Carlin

”How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? ~ Woody Allen

”If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse” ~ Woody Allen

”Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends” ~ Woody Allen

”Religion has never really had a big problem with murder. Not really. More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason” ~ George Carlin

”Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God”
~ Albert Einstein

”It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg” ~ Thomas Jefferson

”The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality” ~ George Bernard Shaw

”I believe in God, only I spell it Nature” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

”Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned” ~ Anonymous

”Give a man a fish and you’ll feed him for a day, give a man religion and he’ll starve to death praying for the fish” ~ Anonymous

”Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going? ~ Anonymous

”The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully” ~ Richard Dawkins

”Do you have to read up on leprechology before disbelieving in leprechauns? ~ Richard Dawkins

”I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it” ~ Mark Twain

”If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever” ~ Woody Allen

”It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand” ~ Mark Twain

Remember, many Christians would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. – Steven Colbert

”When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life” ~ Sigmund Freud

”We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further” ~ Richard Dawkins

” All thinking men are Atheists” ~ Ernest Hemingway

”Isn’t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity” ~ Arthur C. Clarke

”I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, or of future individuals, or of a personal god” ~ Thomas Edison

”I believe that all important matters must be settled here, not in the clouds” ~ Billy Joel

”The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women’s emancipation

”Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical in the occurrence of the improbible. A man of faith is simply one who has lost or never had the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is acctually ill” ~ H.L. Mencken

”I turned to speak to god, about the worlds despair; but to make bad matters worse, I found he simply wasn’t there” ~ Robert Frost

”by the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God” ~ Gloria Steinem

”When I think of all the harm the bibble has done, I despair of writing anything to equal it” ~ Oscar Wilde

Religion does three things effectively: Divides people, controles people, and deludes people” ~ Carlespie McKinney

”Gods are fragile things; they can be killed with a whiff of science or a dose of commen sence” ~ Chapman Cohen

”Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest” ~ Denis Diterot

”You are a good person because you fear damnation. I am a good person without obligation” ~ Guillermo Garcia

”If only god would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank” ~ Woody Allen

”There are two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence” ~ Abu Ala Al-Ma-arri

”Suppose we’ve chosen the wrong God. Every time we go to church we’re just making him madder” ~ Homer Simpson

”Prayer has no place in public schools just like facts have no place in church” ~ Superintendent Chalmers

”I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but recieved no answers until I prayed with my legs” ~ Frederick Douglas

” I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied without understanding the world” – Richard Dawkins

” As people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers” ~ Robert Ingersoll

” Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions” ~ Blaise Pascal

”You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes and you say we need help” ~ Dan Barker

”You can not convince a believer in anything; their beliefe is not based on evidence but a deep seated need to believe” ~ Carl Sagan

”I have seldom met an intelligent person who’s views were not narrowed and distorted by religion” ~ James Buchanan

good question

The quotes are amazing

It’s a question I need to give a 300 word explanation to and I can’t bring myself to imagine it being so important and why it wouldn’tt be to the right. Perhaps historical reasons?

This is a tr additional setting
It follows the seating arrangement in most orchestras
it allows the violin to face the audience. The violins tilt makes the sound project to the players right.
The viola and cello being lower pitched are not as directional as the violins.
I don’t know how you are going to turn that into 300 words, but it is a start.

"String Ensemble Class – Class description
In this class, students who already take private lessons separately have the chance to play in a group setting. Their training includes rhythm, intonation, listening to one other, teamwork, leading, following, following a conductor, music theory and even music appreciation. These young musicians learn what it means to play together as though they are one instrument. They learn the discipline involved in good music making."

This is for some sort of accreditation people who are reviewing stuff at the private school I teach at.
Latest version:

String Ensemble Class – Class description
This class is supplemental to private lessons, giving the students the chance to play in a group setting. Their training includes rhythm, intonation, teamwork, ensemble skills, following a conductor, music theory and even music appreciation. These young musicians learn what it means to play together as though they are one instrument. They learn the discipline involved in good music making.
String Ensemble Class – Class description
This class is designed as a supplement to private lessons, giving the students the chance to play in a group setting. Their training includes rhythm, intonation, teamwork, ensemble skills, following a conductor, music theory and even music appreciation. These young musicians learn what it means to play together as though they are one instrument. They learn the discipline involved in good music making.

<<listening to one other>>

should read "listening to one **another**.

assuming "following and following a conductor" are two different things.

good use case for answers.

I’m composing a piece for a small ensemble and I want to compose for wind quartet. I know that wind quintets were common but I want to leave out probably the horn because it’s in F but would that create issues with the low harmonies as bassoon would be left a little on its own. I will get more marks for my piece if I compose for a common ensemble of the classical period and as a flute and piccolo player I thought a wind ensemble would be best so don’t suggest a string quartet.
By wind quartet I mean flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon. And I take it, Tomodaman, that you are a bassoon player. I personally have nothing against the bassoon I’m just wondering whether the intervals between the bassoon part and the rest would be too great that it would stickout like a sore thumb.

Music of the classical period commonly has the bass part a little isolated; the string quartet, for instance, often has passages with the cello playing in the lower register while the viola climbs up to join the fiddles. You have no need to worry about the bassoon feeeling lonely down there – especially as the bassoon also plays perfectly well in its upper register, with a lovely creamy sound which blends well with almost any wind instrument. Passages of contrasting texture with the bassoon up there playing a ‘little bass’ or dropping out to let the clarinet’s chalumeau register do the same thing can be effective.

There is a mass of literature for wind quartets, though little of it gets the performances it deserves – perhaps because it’s not easy to make rehearsal time to get 4 players together when everyone has to make a living in teaching, orchestras or freelancing. All the same it’s one of my favourite ensembles, whether with flute or horn joining the reed section.

Good luck!

Does anyone know of some good orchestra or chamber music that real lively or even intense? I know some scores are really good but I can’t tell enough about a song just from the samples. I also really like what Scala did on Britains Got Talent with Palladio. Does anyone know of anything else like that where there’s a little classical and a little rock mixed together?

Might not be what you’re looking for, but you should check out the bravura arias from the Baroque Period if you’re looking for classical music songs that can induce adrenaline rush.

Try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTpIRFiKTqo (From Broschi’s Idaspe)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnmXfdvYCRw (From Handel’s Ariodante)

Bring out the tall tales now that we told by the fire as the gaslight bubbled like a diver. Ghosts whooed like owls in the long nights when I dared not look over my shoulder; animals lurked in the cubbyhole under the stairs and the gas meter ticked. And I remember that we went singing carols once, when there wasn’t the shaving of a moon to light the flying streets. At the end of a long road was a drive that led to a large house, and we stumbled up the darkness of the drive that night, each one of us afraid, each one holding a stone in his hand in case, and all of us too brave to say a word. The wind through the trees made noises as of old and unpleasant and maybe webfooted men wheezing in caves. We reached the black bulk of the house. "What shall we give them? Hark the Herald?"
"No," Jack said, "Good King Wencelas. I’ll count three." One, two three, and we began to sing, our voices high and seemingly distant in the snow-felted darkness round the house that was occupied by nobody we knew. We stood close together, near the dark door. Good King Wencelas looked out On the Feast of Stephen … And then a small, dry voice, like the voice of someone who has not spoken for a long time, joined our singing: a small, dry, eggshell voice from the other side of the door: a small dry voice through the keyhole. And when we stopped running we were outside our house; the front room was lovely; balloons floated under the hot-water-bottle-gulping gas; everything was good again and shone over the town.
"Perhaps it was a ghost," Jim said.
"Perhaps it was trolls," Dan said, who was always reading.
"Let’s go in and see if there’s any jelly left," Jack said. And we did that.

Always on Christmas night there was music. An uncle played the fiddle, a cousin sang "Cherry Ripe," and another uncle sang "Drake’s Drum." It was very warm in the little house. Auntie Hannah, who had got on to the parsnip wine, sang a song about Bleeding Hearts and Death, and then another in which she said her heart was like a Bird’s Nest; and then everybody laughed again; and then I went to bed. Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-colored snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, steady falling night. I turned the gas down, I got into bed. I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept.

-Dylan Thomas

Joy to the World

it says, " this could be the final mountain that you will have to climb, a celebration will be waiting when you reach the other side….there’s no place to turn abound…His grace will make you strong…" thats about all i can remember and i loved this song…. and what album does it come from?

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