Smackems posted...
There are huge parts of classical songs that are boring, LONG buildup, and then the good stuff which lasts 1/4 the amount of time the boring shit did
There's my professional opinion
A lot of c music is like a story in that it has your exposition, rising action, climax structure. I may be on the snobbish side on this particular topic (sorry guys) but it kinda irritates me when you see this stuff trimmed out, like a track/video that's JUST the chorale from Holst's Jupiter. It's absolutely the best part of the tune, but it makes so much more sense in the context of the piece. It's like skipping to the punchline of Nate the Snake, which I am fully aware most people did.
Though I guess to cut myself some slack, I haven't taken it to the extreme that I would expect everyone to listen to the whole Planets suite, the way it was intended, lol. There are some pieces I insist should be done that way, like Peer Gynt, but the Planets just for some reason isn't one of them.
Anyway, you also have pieces where the intensity level is just lower, and honestly those can be really good too.