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Thread #75611 Message #1334735
Posted By: Peace
21-Nov-04 - 06:47 PM
Thread Name: Corigliano 'classical' setting of Dylan
Subject: RE: Corigliano 'classical' setting of Dylan
I can think of a few musical pieces that were on the radio. I liked them very much.
"Love is Blue" "Musicbox Dancer"
These songs had no words.
However, I think it strangles a song to have it done by an orchestra. The song had words for a reason. Words were integral and fundamental to what the melody did in it, and vice versa.
I heard Mr Tamborine Man once in an elevator somewhere. I go off at the next available floor. There has to be limits.
Unless someone I trust tells me that it's worth listening to an orchestral/symphonic rendition of a songwriters word, I ain't gonna listen.