<p>Well, when is there a better time to be ambitious than now? :)</p>
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<p>You know, I can't help but read through this thread and think "Wow, it is damn awesome that people like this will prospectively be my classmates next year."</p>
<p>That pretty much gets me through high school.</p>
<p>You know, I've had the same thought. This is a really cool thread; let's keep it alive and maybe not talk about admissions until April? I'm sure there are no end to the erudite interests we share. Classical music, anyone?</p>
<p>Some, though I don't know as much as I should. I love what Mozart I know, especially his Requiem Mass (and Amadeus is a great movie, albeit dramatized, as I understand it). Modest Mussorgsky's St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain will also always be a favourite, but that's partly from my association of it with Fantasia (the second to last sequence was always my favourite). </p>
<p>I listen to a bunch of different stuff. Does anybody know the band Dead Can Dance?</p>
<p>What about art?</p>
<p>hey guys, i've been reading this thread for a while and not posting, but i have to say, "i love this"!! everyone is so interesting, and since i'm applying regular too, i thought i would enter the conversation.</p>
<p>i don't know much about classical music, but i love art. i've done museum internships and sent in an art portfolio.</p>
<p>devorzhum, what kind of art do you like? i am really love winslow homer as well as impressionists and realist painters. but i would not mind discussing any kind of art!! :)</p>
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<p>Winslow Homer is the amazing water colorist, yes? He is amazing.</p>
<p>I also am into impressionism and realism. I love John William Waterhouse, whose work I've done studies of (latest one is here: <a href="http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/Aurora_Gorealis/Drawings/DSC03320.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/Aurora_Gorealis/Drawings/DSC03320.jpg</a> - I don't think I'll ever finish it =p), Gustav Klimt, Dali, Alphonse Mucha, Schiele, Hans Bellmer, and some others. Monet.</p>
<p>What kind of art do you do?</p>
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<p>devorzhum - this is so cool: when someone asked what kind of classical music everyone listened to the first thing that popped into my mind was mozart's requiem mass!!!! And then .5 seconds later I read your post! How awesome is that? Wow I hope we all go to amherst so we can continue this conversation :)</p>
<p>I'm really into theater. I just did a project on vaclav havel's Unveiling, which I loved, and for the next play i'm in we might be adapting voltaire's Candide for the stage! I'm so excited! I'm also really into theater practitioners like Stanislavski and Grotowski. Oh and I'm doing a costumes project on Japanese Noh theater which is proving to be much more interesting than i initially thought... :)</p>
<p>Wow I really can't wait till college!</p>
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<p>I'm infatuated with Vermeer, Baroque lover that I am. Similarly, I love Telemann, Bach, Vivaldi, Buxtehude, etc. but as a horn player, enjoy tons of other stuff. As for Mussorgsky, I have played the aforementioned piece but prefer "Pictures at an Exhibition". At the moment I am undergoing a tchaikovsky obsession.</p>
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<p>Anyone into Satie? I LOVE his First Gnosienne. And Smetana - I think Vltava might actually be my favourite piece of music. It also reminds me of Prague and whenever I listen to it while i'm traveling abroad I start missing the CZ. It's amazing how you can really understand the story the music is telling. I'm also interested in Art Nouveau so right now I'm a bit obsessed with Mucha's prints.</p>
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<p>Adapting Candide? That sounds like fun! </p>
<p>Regarding music, I haven't heard much classical music. I'm more into Jazz and Brazilian Bossa nova.</p>
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<p>OMG I LOVE SMETANA. I'm playing the "Moldau" now, but I also love "Of Bohemia's Woods and Meadows". And yes, Carp, I like Satie a lot; he wrote good horn parts.</p>
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<p>My classical music exposure is pretty limited, I think, to what I've played in Orchestra and the bits of Mozart or whatever that my parents have. Not much, because in orchestra we don't stick to classical...we've played Jimi Hendrix. I'm a big fan of Dvorjak's New World Symphony, though.</p>
<p>And I'd like to echo the sentiments of whoever commented on the excitement of people like this being prospective classmates. It's going to be...refreshing, to say the least.</p>
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<p>Yeah, Homer is watercolor. And I love Waterhouse (and your painting!!). I did an in depth project on Degas last year - one of the dancers paintings - and it was amazing! I do a mixture of pottery and painting/drawing (it depends what I feel like doing)</p>
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<p>I love sculpture, my secondary artistic interest. I really like Degas' ballerinas; their form is incredible.</p>
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<p>cool froghorn! Die Moldau is actually the same piece of music as The Vltava - for some reason Smetana used the river's german name.... no idea why since he's czech. Dvorak is great too (also Czech :D ). </p>
<p>Yeah, adapting Candide will be a great challenge! </p>
<p>When I was in band (many moons ago, lol) we played the theme from Pirates of the Caribbean - so much fun! Hahaha i think it was the only time our band ever got a standing ovation!</p>
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<p>We played Pirates in Orchestra...it's pretty ubiquitous in marching bands, too...I've heard it more times than I can count. It is very fun to play, though :)
We played the music from the Polar Express this year...it's incredibly hard...and we're playing Phantom of the Opera now.</p>
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<p>We played Pirates of the Caribbean two and a half years ago in band and it was the BEST thing we ever did. Seriously. I love that piece. :) We're not marching, though, just regular.</p>
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<p>Piratemonkey, that's really interesting about "The Moldau" (sorry, I can't call it something else!!!). Czech is an interesting language; I had a Czech camper this summer with whom I spoke French.</p>
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<p>lol speaking french with a czech camper in the US (an assumption on my part)! You have to love this crazy international world we live in :)</p>
<p>oh, I do indeed!</p>
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