densinge@stolaf.UUCP (Charles W. Densinger) (10/26/84)
Here's my list of warhorses: 1. Beethoven, Symphony #5 2. Mozart, Piano sonata in C major, k.545 3. Vivaldi, Four Seasons 4. The Ride of the Walkyries, Wagner (from Die Walkyrie) 5. Bach, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring 6. Bizet's Carmen 7. Bach prelude #1 in C major (from Well-tempered Klavier) 8. Brahms, Piano Concerto #1 9. Debussy, Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun 10. Holst, The Planets I'll be waiting for the results! -Chuck Densinger @ St. Olaf College {decvax|ihnp4}!stolaf!densinge
robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) (10/29/84)
Just a few more warhorses: Mozart: Eine Kleine Nacthmusik Ravel: Bolero Vivaldi: Spring concerto from the seasons. Liszt's Les Preludes used to be a warhorse. You could not watch TV in the 1950's unless you were willing to hear it. I would like to predict that by 1990, Bartok's concerto for orchestra will be a warhorse. I would like to include the Mozart sonatina that EVERYONE studies who plays piano, but I think that probably anyone has heard the second movement, or even all of the first. - Toby Robison (not Robinson!) allegra!eosp1!robison or: decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison or (emergency): princeton!eosp1!robison
greg@olivej.UUCP (Greg Paley) (11/02/84)
A few operatic excerpts that I think belong in the "warhorse" category: (1) Puccini: La Boheme, Act II - "Musetta's Waltz" (2) Verdi: Aida, Act II - Grand March (3) Rossini: Barber of Seville, Act I - "Largo al factotum" (4) Verdi: Rigoletto, Act 4 - "La Donna e Mobile" (5) Bizet: Carmen, Act 1 - "Habanera" There are others that, judging from old movies, seem to have been warhorses of the past generation, but which have died off a bit: (1) Saint-Saens: Samson And Delilah - "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" (2) Rossini: William Tell - Overture (3) Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 3 - "Liebestod" (4) Puccini: Madama Butterfly, Act 2 - "Un bel di" (5) Verdi: La Traviata, Act 1 - "Sempre Libera" Of these, the only one I've gotten so sick of I wouldn't mind never hearing it again is the Boheme excerpt. - Greg Paley