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[k-k-k-kenny]

Middle-aged wretch. From Oz.
Since turning 50 been on a voyage of rediscovery, picking up threads dropped at 18. Almost exclusively piano. Though I guess the cello is an agreeable instrument. And the accordion has become a practical passion.
The balance of my allotted span is too short to waste on opera or Mozart, I feel.
I'll contribute what I can, and hope to learn much.

[Hollywood]

Welcome to the forum  k-k-k-kenny. Looks like we have another member from Oz on board. Greetings from Austria!

[DavidW]

Welcome!

[bhodges]

Hello, k-k-k-kenny.  Piano is wonderful, and so is cello.  But accordion--now there's a rarified taste (speaking as an accordion fan). 

Do you know the work of Sofia Gubaidulina?  She has a solo accordion work called De Profundis that is pretty marvelous.

--Bruce

[david johnson]

hi! 
mozart would not be a waste.

dj

[sospiro]

Greetings from UK k-k-k-kenny.

IMO you still have plenty of time left in which to discover opera & you don't need to love the whole damn lot. I started late & it didn't take long to realise I prefer Italian opera & that's what I'm concentrating on.

Try just one CD. Read the synopsis, follow the libretto & listen to it a few times. You may like it but if not you haven't wasted too much time/money.

(PS I agree with you about Mozart!)

[k-k-k-kenny]

Hello, k-k-k-kenny.  Piano is wonderful, and so is cello.  But accordion--now there's a rarified taste (speaking as an accordion fan). 

Do you know the work of Sofia Gubaidulina?  She has a solo accordion work called De Profundis that is pretty marvelous.

--Bruce

Thanks, Bruce.

Haven't heard her - yet. My accordion tastes run very much to French musette & swing - Gus Viseur, Jo Privat, Tony Murena and some of the present generation - and tango. Well, that's not really accordion at all, but bandoneon. Especially pioneers from the 20s and 30s like Ciriaco Ortiz and Anibal Troilo. Cuts through like a band saw. I was brought listening to Jimmy Shand - and hated it. Though it's quite fun to play, and good exercise. And my teacher is running me through a whole bunch of that Italian popular virtuoso school (operas condensed to under 3 minutes, that sort of thing) which seems largely to have died out, along with "popular classics" & Andre Kostelanetz. Again, it's better to do than to listen to.

And Sospiro, I've a mate who threatens to ply me with opera of all sorts. We shall see ...

[cosmicj]

Hi kkkenny.  I enjoy your postings on Audio Asylum.  Looking forward to speaking with you - though you are so wrong about Mozart!