Thank you for the music..

Elegran you hum it and I'll play it ( three iceberg lettuces)

My favourite piece of classical music is Debussy's Arabesque. I found this on YouTube which gives a whole new look at the piece. Other animations on there worth viewing as well.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6s49OKp6aE&index=1&list=RDA6s49OKp6aE

I hope you get this to work if not search Malinowski animations

I'm another Schubert fan, I also adore Bach and Beethoven.
I loathe almost all 20th century music (and the art and architecture too. Was everything ugly in that wickedly violent century?)

I think of all the "classical" composers, Schubert nailed it most effectively! There's such simplicity about much of his composition, as well as the drama and emotion of, say, the Unfinished. He didn't get stale or clichéd, perhaps because he died so young.....

Elegran,
I haven't heard of that song!

That's one of my favourites too, hilda.

Wrong thread!

That explains the "No more than three Iceberg lettuces"

I like listening to classical music. At present my favourite composer is Schubert. My favourite changes from time to time. I like this piece from the ballet Rosamude.
m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=v2dXBHyW1B0

I love music, have the radio on all day, I hum most of the time and dont realise until people say they enjoyed the tune!
I was brought up in Liverpool in the 60,s and the whole City was MUSIC it was lovely.I think music makes people happy, and it is said it helps people with dementia too.
Sing along ladies and enjoy ourselves.

I play music through my PC, whilst working about upstairs. However, my DH has the same idea at the same time and we have very diverse tastes. It just lifts my spirits to have music playing whilst I'm doing boring tasks. I use You Tube a lot and have discovered lots of new artists through this medium.

I'm with you jaycee5 love soul, Tamla Motown.

The humming chorus (think it's called that) always makes me cry. From madame butterfly. It is being streamed to cinemas soon!

I could never get enough of Michael Jackson.
My favourite 'One day in your Life' brings back wonderful memories.

I wonder what those who have grown up with rap and hip-hop will do for their oldies music... it just does not seem to fit: Picture this at the care home can you?

Having a good sing-along session, punctuated with shouts of four letter words and gangsta hand gestures around the ghetto-blaster.

Oh yes, can't live without music. It helps me through housework, keeps me sane, makes me happy, renders me speechless sometimes. Mostly I listen to Classic fm, but I also love what is called "The Great American Songbook", songs from musicals, Freddie Mercury, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Eagles, Abba .... but I'm not at all into modern stuff or rap.

Yes! It does what it celebrates.
Music of most genres is important to my life too.

But the music that moves me most is Opera as it is a direct link to my father, dead for the past 46 years, who had to give up a career as a promising tenor in order to support his family more realistically.

I love all kinds of music from Classical to Modern.
One particular song though really makes me turn up the radio wherever I am whether in the car or at home is:
Happy, by Pharrell Williams.
Do any other Gransnetters find this song as captivating as I do?

Just listened to him on utube Petra, sorry but his voice is so weak , i know how popular he is so must be me , too many years of Welsh tenors and baritones . but thank you, at least I have heard him now

MissAdventure, glad I'm not the only fan. I have all his music and there is a lot on utube. If you can find For You, I think you will like it. Annie's song a classic.

Foxyferret,
I love John Denver too
Annie's song moves me to tears.

Annie You say you've never listened to Micheal Jackson. If you have the time give a listen to: Heal the world and Earth song.

"Thankyou for the Music" - I should have added Thankyou ABBA!

Music was my first love and it will be my last. Credence Clearwater Revival, Neil Diamond, Beatles, Beach Boys, Celina Dion, Barbra Streisand, Eagles, Brian Adams, Status Quo, Bon Jovi and most of all John Denver, not because he had the greatest voice but because of the beautiful lyrics. I cried the first time I heard him sing a song called For You. I play his music very often, so sad that he is no longer with us, he was a real poet and storyteller.

I would add that it I should the Somervell version and not the Butterworth one.