DANCE PARTY!FNDP: Concerts - gone to or dreamed of 🎶🎸🎷🎻🎺🎹🎤

submitted by CaelianPost No Toasties from self.WayOfTheBern

This is a clone of u/Martini's Reddit FNDP 🐑

I'm heading with a coworker to see this band tonight.

And I would love to see this in concert — alas, not this year at least.

What concerts have you enjoyed, or are you looking forward to? Or would love to go to, even if impossible (like Prince+Bowie - that'd be fantastic! 😿)

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[–]stickdog 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Seeing these folks tomorrow. It's free.

The Heavy Heavy

Neal Francis

M Ward

[–]Orochiwe don't need no water let the mother[honk] burn 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Caravan Palace - Clash (live at Le Trianon, Paris)

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties[S] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

My favorite live music is silent movie accompaniment. I once saw D.W. Griffith's 1916 masterpiece Intolerance with a full orchestra. Really fantastic, with the music changing as the film jumped between eras. The Babylonian scenes often used Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah. The "modern" American scenes had an excellent solo pianist playing early 20th century music.

The music is critical for enjoying a silent movie. Even though the visuals are the same, the choice of music makes a huge difference in the overall experience.

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties[S] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I recently heard a really good live performance of Stravinsky's Petrushka in a small hall. Petrushka is normally a ballet, but in this case it was just a medium-size orchestra. This was great, since you didn't have dancers distracting you from the music, which often has conversations between a few instruments, with the conversations constantly moving about the orchestra. You can't hear this without being there live, and the hall and orchestra have to be the right size.

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Nana Mouskouri - Plaisir d'amour -live 1974

Might have been that year, but in Montreal. I got a horrific nosebleed right before the concert, and sat there for 2 hours with a big wad of tissue up my nose. 3rd row center. She spent the entire concert staring at me.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Von Karajan conducting the fourth movement of the first Brandenburg Concerto in 1965. Unanswerable.

Come and get me, you legions of deluded Gardiner fanboys.

[–]Maniak🥃😾 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I disagree with something somewhere, but vehemently!

There. Back to you.

[–]Promyka5When in the course of human events... 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Simon & Garfunkel -- America (live)

[–]Promyka5When in the course of human events... 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Traffic -- John Barleycorn

Live in Santa Monica, 1972

[–]Promyka5When in the course of human events... 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Catherine MacLellan -- Sparrows (live)

[–]Maniak🥃😾 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Forgot one, and there's video for it: Mylene Farmer 1989 En concert

I wasn't there, but I think that one sister was there at the time (way, way older sister. too old you could even say)

[–]Maniak🥃😾 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Do musical comedies count?

Was at that one and also at that one (sadly without video apparently). At those exact recordings.

And if those don't count, then there's always Nodame Cantabile