Help Build My Valentine’s Day Playlist
HELP! Next Monday is Valentine’s Day and I need your help building my classical music playlist. What are some of your favorite pieces that invoke images of love? Is there a composer you consider to be especially romantic Is there a composer you especially love? Do you have a piece that reminds you of your sweetheart? What of unrequited love? How about non-romantic love? The love of parent for child? The love of country? How about favorite couples? Romeo and Juliet? Tristan and Isolde? Is there a piece that you just love? Send me your thoughts and ideas. Send me a picture of you and the one you love. Send me your favorite romantic poem. Send me a Youtube link to a performance of your favorite classical music that invokes feelings of love.
This year’s Valentine’s Day playlist is all up to you. You can post on this blog or you can write to me at bbarajas@ideastations.org. If you are on Twitter you can write to me @wcvebbarajas. I would LOVE to hear from you!
Hello,
There are so many type of love, like mother's love, Love for friends, Love for parents and love for country etc. But I think Valentine's day is to express your love towards your soul-mate.
And if you need words for that then you can find a lot of valentine s day quotes :
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.." By: Anais Nin
"Whoso loves, believes the impossible.."
By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hi, Bobbie -
Ralph Vaughan Williams “Sinfonia Antarctica” paired with Nikki Giovanni’s “kidnap poem”
To most people, “Sinfonia Antarctica” does not sound particularly romantic. However, whenever I hear either the music or read the poem, I think of my husband who allowed me to “kidnap” him to travel around the world, to many remote places, with me. I knew I married the right man when after saying “We HAVE to go to Antarctica!” he simply said, “Okaaaay, how do we do it?”
kidnap poem
by Nikki Giovanni
ever been kidnapped
by a poet
if i were a poet
i’d kidnap you
put you in my phrases and meter
you to jones beach
or maybe coney island
or maybe just to my house
lyric you in lilacs
dash you in the rain
blend into the beach
to complement my see
play the lyre for you
ode you with my love song
anything to win you
wrap you in the red Black green
show you off to mama
yeah if i were a poet i’d kidnap you
Andy and Michael, GREAT suggestions. I can see each of these pieces on the playlist that day. Please send me any other ideas that may come to mind. I best watch out for you two. You’re fantastic programmers!
Bobbie
Fun idea! I have always loved Smetana’s “The Moldau” first movement, and Dvorak’s “New World Symphony” as reflecting a love of country, but that would be too long. Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” is also patriotic, celebrating the common man. I have loved my wife Mary Ellen playing Chopin’s Preludes — there is one that is used as the basis for a Barry Manilow tune “Could This be the Magic?” which is an odd claim to fame (or notoriety) for a classical piece… but it’s a beautiful piece notwithstanding that. (Along those lines, there was a Rachmaninoff theme that Eric Carmen used as the basis for pop hit “All By Myself” back in late 70s.) But I much prefer the Chopin.
Thanks!
Andy
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