This year I have participated in March Madness...basketball isn't one of my favorite sports but I will have to say that College Basketball is more fun to watch than professional...and since Mizzou is doing better this year it's even more fun to watch...
Why am I participating in March Madness? Well first because one of my brackets is a fundraiser for my neice's softball team and the second one? All I have to say is that I got sucked in to the "madness"...at this point I'm not really doing very well...Wake Forest killed me...
Ok so what does this have to do with Classical music? Well I started thinking about which composers would I put in a "Sweet 16"? I don't have a complete list yet...it may just work out to an "Elite 8"...so here's the start of my list...these are composers whose body of work I enjoy...you'll note that most are from the Romantic period, there are a number of Composers that I haven't listed (yet) that I only enjoy maybe one or two of their works...but I may add them later.
Here's the list not in any particular order
Brahms
Beethoven
Dvorak
Mahler
Gould
Rachmaninoff
Verdi
Mozart
Percy Grainger
Schumann
Schubert
Who would you put in your "Sweet 16"?
-Karen Seeger
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
1st Post
This is really just a practice post, being new to the blogging world...but I hope this is a place where you will come to share your musings about the music and other related topics.
I'll start off with a little musing about my background...I always knew I'd be in Band, I guess because of all the parades we went to growing up...not to mention the fact that my dad's favorite musical was The Music Man (my sister and I can recite it by heart). We lived in Texas when it was time for me to start band...I thought I wanted to play trumpet because Herb Alpert and Al Hirt were really big at the time. When it came time to try out the instruments I picked up a trumpet tried to blow through it and couldn't get a single note, I was devastated...I walk over to this really shiny big brass instrument picked it up and blew several notes...the instrument was a French Horn and it's been pretty much a part of my life to this day.
I have a Music Ed degree and taught for 3 years, I enjoyed teaching but I enjoy bringing the greatest music in the world to my Mid-Missouri audience every day.
Karen Seeger
I'll start off with a little musing about my background...I always knew I'd be in Band, I guess because of all the parades we went to growing up...not to mention the fact that my dad's favorite musical was The Music Man (my sister and I can recite it by heart). We lived in Texas when it was time for me to start band...I thought I wanted to play trumpet because Herb Alpert and Al Hirt were really big at the time. When it came time to try out the instruments I picked up a trumpet tried to blow through it and couldn't get a single note, I was devastated...I walk over to this really shiny big brass instrument picked it up and blew several notes...the instrument was a French Horn and it's been pretty much a part of my life to this day.
I have a Music Ed degree and taught for 3 years, I enjoyed teaching but I enjoy bringing the greatest music in the world to my Mid-Missouri audience every day.
Karen Seeger
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