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what's in your car

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Over-The-Rhine Digest wrote:

> From: Paul Soupiset <soupiset at toolbox_net>
> Subject: Re: Most Influential
>
> Add this to the discussion.
> This is my most *influential*; not necessarily favourite (fine line):
>
> Book Collection: My 6 or 7 from Tolkien (and his maps!)
> Opera: Wagner, Ring Cycle
> Musical: um, no thanks.
> - --
> paul r. soupiset

Hot damn!  The best part about Tolkien *is* the maps.  This man's on the
right page.

What's in my car cd carrier (partial list--it holds 48)

Various Over The Rhine
Squirrel Nut Zippers--The Inevitable
REM--Up
Wings of the Dove soundtrack
Renee Fleming--Strauss 4 Last Songs, The Schubert Album
Inessa Galante
Ezio Pinza
Montemezzi-L'Amore de Tre Re Acts 2&3
R Strauss--Die Frau Ohne Schatten Act 3
Verdi--Ernani, I Lombardi
Wagner--Parsifal Act 3, Lohengrin Act 3, Die Walkure Act 3, Tristan&Isolde
	Act 3
Vaughan Williams--Symphonies 2 & 8, Lark Ascending, Dives & Lazarus
Gorecki--Symphony #3, O Domina Nostra
Mahler--Symphonies 3, 6, 10, and Das Lied von der Erde
Shostakovich--Syphonies 8 & 10
Beethoven--Late string quartets
Smetana--Ma Vlast
Ste Colombe--Retrouve et Change
Eroica Trio--Dvorak and Shostkovich piano trios
JS Bach--Unaccompanied cello suites 2 and 5

I guess it's week of third acts of things.

I made this list to stress how appealing Over the Rhine is to someone who
mainly listens to classical music rather than alternative rock, or "lush
chamber pop" or however OtR would be be categorized.  (I think one would
best refrain from trying to categorize OtR).

A couple things on that list aren't very well known--the Sainte Colombe (17th
century French bass viol music)--for a primer, see a throughly fictitious
account of the composer's life in the 1991 movie Tou les Matins du Monde,
with Depardieu and some saucy French girls.  Ooh la la.  Then buy the
soundtrack of that movie.  And the Montemezzi opera is not done much
these days but is a sort of cult-of-the-beautiful work from 1913 with
a very rich symphonic score.  It's a lot of embarrasing big fat Italian
emotions, set in the middle ages.  Yay.

Re-re-lurking
BenT

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