Jazz for aficionados

If only I could do it all over again, I would be a Tangoing fool; that has got to be the most sensual, romantic dance ever invented, it speaks of love; other "sexy" dances don't even compare, and I like the music.

Enjoy the music.

Amen Orpheus, after I saw the Robert Duval tango flick I am in love with Tango. Rock dancing is anti-romantic .
I'm planning a Trip to Argentina in Feb., no jet lag for us old folks and better Feb weather than Minnesota.

Hi Schubert - we do mostly agree. Yes, Mozart and Schubert wrote a few compositions in a very short amount of time. This has much to do with the fact that every musician back then had and used much more improvisational skills than most of us do today, with the exception of some jazz musicians and baroque/classical keyboard players. However, I can assure you that neither Mozart or Schubert wrote an entire symphony "in his head" and then wrote it down afterwards. A theme, yes, a short lieder, yes, a simple dance movement for piano such as a minuet, yes, a large multi-movement composition, no. In other words, anything they wrote out that quickly was essentially an improvisation. There are some excellent books out there that speak of Mozart's and Schubert's compositional processes. Both men would work incredibly long hours, with very detrimental effects on their health (that part of the movie Amadeus is very accurate). They were two of the hardest working composers in history, especially when their too too brief lifespans are considered, as Frogman mentioned. I have said in these forums before that I consider the death of Mozart to be the most tragic early death in the history of all the arts, not just music.

You mentioned Bruckner, also a favorite of mine. He was very famous for his improvisations at the organ, none of which he wrote down afterwards, unfortunately for posterity. According to many contemporary accounts, some of them were better than the solo organ works that he did write down. The same goes for J. S. Bach, though of course in his case, everything he wrote down was pretty much a masterwork. Bruckner took much more time to develop as a composer than the others you mentioned. What he became a master of was the extension of long forms, which of course could not be improvised, hence the longer developmental period in his case. He was another workaholic, like pretty much all truly great artists.

I have read , and believe, that no human alive who grew up on TV has a brain with the capacity to concentrate on the level of a Mozart.
Learsfool, you hear music through the ears of a musician, I through the ears of a listener.
Both states have their advantages and disadvantages.

"Jazz does the Tango", is the title of our new segment. Come with me to my new life; I'm now in my mid twenties, and Tango was in my blood since birth. For every man there is a woman, where is she, where is the one for me, where is my Tango lady? Find the one, and you will find the sun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0pYkIVHP44

My "Tango Lady" must sing a song of love; it's for certain this is a song of love, and she wrote it; but can she dance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIJZSs2gxdo

This is the ultimate "cerebral" Tango; my Tango lady must be able to do this one as well; it's done on a rainy afternoon, at a sidewalk cafe overlooking the park, seated at a table for two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9lfdx-h6u0

Now it's time to Tango, like the last Tango ever in life;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lAKlYTQVKY

Where is she? My fantacia Tango lady who will dance me to the end of love, to the end of life?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWCmubP5h9c

Enjoy the music.