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Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

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Re: Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

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Post by Freak_NL »

gbear605 wrote: post #18
fortran77 wrote: post #15

Some might consider J.S. Bach to be "Baroque" not "Classical." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach

In popular usage, the term classical refers to all european music written before about 1900 or so, and music written since that fits an older style

Strictly speaking not all music written before 1900. There was no rock or pop music of course, but I wouldn't lump folk music (the kind sung in taverns and to goats by lonely goatherds¹) under classical music. The line gets blurred at some point of course, but that has always been the case (Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is four parts rock and one part opera, and the Radetzky-Marsch has all the makings of a hit pop record — well, back in those days at least).

1: My apologies if that song got stuck in your head now. Give the Laibach cover a listen if you want it out of there.

Re: Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

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Post by lozenge »

dmix wrote: post #24
fortran77 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Listen, if you want to call all Western Art music "classical" go right ahead. In fact, pop stuff like "Andrea Bocelli" and "The Piano Guys" gets lumped into "classical" too.

Sounds like a pointless hill to die on IMO, even if it is technically accurate. With language there's always plenty of context which humans are smart enough to make distinctions from. I've never understood why people selectively allow broad context for most things, except for some pet subjects. The label programmers vs developers vs engineers is a good example, when the majority of people know what you're referring t…

It's difficult to imagine how any team of 1,700 could work on a new website whose spec isn't even fleshed out.

I read the project got 1,700 volunteer applications, not actual commitments.

Re: Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

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Post by Freak_NL »

notanote wrote: post #14

‘All of Bach’ is the Netherlands Bach Society project to record the entire catalogue of Bach works. Check them out if you’re in the mood for classical music. https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach

Great project. My only nitpick is that their content is not permissively licenced. This is fine for the short-term, because the Bach Society has to earn its keep somehow, but it would be nice if there was some kind of licensing planned for the many decades between short and mid-term monetization and the eventual expiry of copyright on these recordings.

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Post by EL_Loco »

krustyburger wrote: post #30
theAS wrote: post #28

Is there a website or channel or radio , which plays these classsics from various websites randomly ? like a FM radio.

I listen to a stream of a Los Angeles station called KUSC all the time. It’s a fantastic station (unless they’re doing a pledge drive, but don’t worry, they just did one) and it’s comforting that it’s the same hosts no matter where I travel. Asking to play it works across all major devices and platforms.

KUSC listener here too. I agree it's great station, plus it's available on my quite old Squeezebox devices. It's owned and operated by the University of Southern California

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Post by FalconSensei »

nitrogen wrote: post #21
fortran77 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Listen, if you want to call all Western Art music "classical" go right ahead. In fact, pop stuff like "Andrea Bocelli" and "The Piano Guys" gets lumped into "classical" too.

Knowingly and insistently using a different jargon/vernacular from a person with whom you want to communicate isn't going to get you far.

Especially considering people are already not so keen on classical music

Re: Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

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Post by ehsankia »

zmix wrote: post #34

I see no "free" on that page. The only thing, which is free, is the first month. Then it costs EUR 16.90/month.

It's funny, the page, as it's loading, shows "free trial" button, and when it finishes loading, the button text changes to "free".

Re: Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

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Post by Barrin92 »

maybe one good thing that comes out of this is that more people become conscious of how important it is to have access to high quality cultural goods.

With the virus circulating around now everyone is affected, but the overwhelming majority of people never has physical access to this sort of content. Some countries have well financed public broadcasters, but it would probably be worth expanding this stuff across national borders.

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