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[EvangelionZeta]

Emperor or Beethoven's 9th.  I also suspect the top 3 will be those two and Beethoven's 6th.

@ Ninwa, <333 Saint-Saens #2.  MGS is playing it at the Melbourne Town Hall on November 16th in a larger charity concert (along with the Pa Pa Pa Pa Duet from Mozart's The Magic Flute)!  Come! (I'm one of the singers in the Mozart duet >.>)

Ooooooooooh! Who's the pianist?

edit: if Tchaik isn't in the list... I will lose all faith in Australians.
edit 2: faith will also be lost if Gaythoven makes no.1... especially a cliche like the 9th

Tchaik 1 is #29, have no fear.  D:

Pianist is Kevin Kanisius Suherman - he's a music scholar at MGS in year 10 who is apparently a celebrity in his homeland of Indonesia!

[AzureBlue]

Ahhh so op 23 is no 1...

[ninwa]

Ahhh so op 23 is no 1...

Number 1 is up?? Where?!?

No.13 Saint-Saëns - Symphony No 3 in C minor, Op 78, “Organ”
Can't believe I forgot this one
We did the last movement for the school concert. I spent a month getting up every day at 7am to learn the organ part on the electric organ at school... FML
My friend played the piano part (there's about 30 seconds of piano at the very start) and had to sit there quietly... on stage... under all the lights... for the next 10 minutes of the piece... in front of a capacity audience (it was at Hamer Hall)... lol

[AzureBlue]

Number 1 is up?? Where?!?

Sorry, I meant I forgot that Tchaik Op 23 = Tchaik No. 1

[the.watchman]

Ahhh so op 23 is no 1...

Number 1 is up?? Where?!?

No.13 Saint-Saëns - Symphony No 3 in C minor, Op 78, “Organ”
Can't believe I forgot this one
We did the last movement for the school concert. I spent a month getting up every day at 7am to learn the organ part on the electric organ at school... FML
My friend played the piano part (there's about 30 seconds of piano at the very start) and had to sit there quietly... on stage... under all the lights... for the next 10 minutes of the piece... in front of a capacity audience (it was at Hamer Hall)... lol

Awesome! Our school is installing a pipe organ, and we're gonna be playing that in March next year for the opening, and I'm concertmaster
I love the bit where the piano part comes in, and the fugue, and the end, and the...

[Noblesse]

No.1 in the #classic100: Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125, “Choral” – Philharmonia Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras

[EvangelionZeta]

Knew it!  And well deserving too - sorry Ninwa!

[appianway]

Only 2 Dvorak?!?!?! =[

[AzureBlue]

1 Chopin and no Liszt, this is disappointing Haha you hear Beethoven's 9th so much http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAOTCtW9v0M
11 Beethoven and about 10 Mozart...

[ninwa]

AUSTRALIA, I AM DISAPPOINT

At least it wasn't symphony 5 I guess >_>

@the.watchmen that is so friggin cool!!! My school doesn't even have the electronic organ anymore tho I still have the key to it so if I could discover where it is atm I could go and play it
Do you actually have an organist? I'm amazed Hamer Hall allowed someone with no organ training to play theirs tho I did have an entourage of 3 music teachers to work the stops for me (no way I could learn those in a month)

[scocliffe09]

it's disappointing. All the Beethovenites were just enraged last year when the mighty Dvorak won ( ) and so they all voted for Beethoven this year...

[the.watchman]

@the.watchmen that is so friggin cool!!! My school doesn't even have the electronic organ anymore tho I still have the key to it so if I could discover where it is atm I could go and play it
Do you actually have an organist? I'm amazed Hamer Hall allowed someone with no organ training to play theirs tho I did have an entourage of 3 music teachers to work the stops for me (no way I could learn those in a month)

I know, it's gonna be awesome when it's finished!
Yeah, we do have an organist, although it is a teacher. Once the pipe organ's in, I'm sure theyll be students learning though

[ninwa]

LOL did anyone notice the poem?

Ode to The Classic 100 Ten Years On

We’ve Swoon, Mystery Tenor and Tears On
Toast to intrigue and enthral,
But The Classic 100 Ten Years On
Makes all other gimmicks seem small

Our fans are glued to our transmitter,
Our switchboard is feeling the pace,
The tweets are quite twitchy on Twitter,
And Facebook has gone off its face.

The betting is getting frenetic.
Intense speculation is rife.
The tension is quite energetic.
The air you could cut with a knife.

If I had to plonk an amount down
And take a wild stab in the dark,
I’d bet that the King of the Countdown
Was Beethoven, Mozart or Bach.

With Schubert perhaps worth a mention.
Prokofiev not, I’m afraid.
And Brahms? He’s now out of contention.
His biggest works now have been played.

But who knows... The winner may well be
A single Hungarian Dance.
And as for Brett Dean... and Ketèlbey...
I wonder if they stand a chance.

The 1812’s over and done with.
Boléro’s departed the scene.
The Third of Saint-Saëns (that’s the one with
The organ): unlucky thirteen.

Swan Lake only made it to forty.
Peer Gynt to just seventy-five.
At thirty: there’s Pärt. Who’d have thought he
Would figure. The guy’s still alive.

And so is another: Gorecki.
His Sorrowful Songs: Ninety-six.
Though not turbo-charged like a jet ski,
It’s one of our popular picks.

I know that forgetting is human,
But some of the greats have been missed.
Where’s Verdi? And Bruckner and Schumann
And Haydn and Wagner and Liszt?

And others I (browsing through Grove) itch
To mention. And not before time.
(I wanted to list Shostakovich,
But just couldn’t think of a rhyme.)

I’m tipping we’re gonna have more Beethoven.
Chopin perhaps.
And Fauré? No. Merely a sorbet
Reduced to just filling up gaps.

We’re now at that “barely can wait” stage
When riddles are finally twigged.
If John Cage crops up at this late stage
We’ll know that the voting was rigged.

With nerves all a-tremor, now Emma
And Mairi take up this affair.
Tomorrow we’ll end the dilemma
When Colin and Marian chair.

by Bob Maynard