Anybody out there interested in composing or critiquing compositions? I would like to find anybody who believes in the power of music to express emotions, especially as displayed by the Romantics. No Brains on this subject?

i think the music first of all should not express, but impress. That's the problem with the great old romantics of 19th century. In their time their music did impress people, awakening real emotions. Now it's more like a very beautiful picture. You will enjoy its beauty and aesthetic perfection, but your feelings/emotions will stay cold...

True enough-- in order to please the audience you must impress. That must be part of the reason the old masters hit it off better in their day than now, because their mindsets and emotions were typical of their day. but they don´t leave everybody cold today, either, at least not me. Who could sleep throughthe charged atmosphere of a Wagnerian opera, or stay cold in a love song like Tchaikovsky´s piano concerto in Bb minor?

Well, I agree, music is a very powerful medium, and can have a deep reaching effect on people in many ways, or on some not at all. We are all different which is a very good thing. I do not fix my music in any single genre and hope that there is something good for everyone, within what I produce. I try to communicate with my music and rise above the 'merely -human' while at the same time keeping it easily 'experience-able'. Like film music perhaps, but the listener adds his/her own pictures and thoughts.......

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