what's your favorite while quilting?

Anything written between about 1625 and 1800. Having a terrific classical music station available on the radio and now online is a godsend. When do I listen? Mostly when sewing because DH has the TV on in the cutting room (also known as the dining and living room!)

Dogmom

my 3 favorites are classical, easy piano, and ambient.

Musicmaker

All of the above. I also have a huge library of music. I like everything, except rap and hip-hop. Joan Baez. Bob Dylan. Andrea Bocelli (he could sing me the phone book and I wouldn't care) The Beatles. 80's hair bands. Celtic. Christian. I couldn't quilt without music. I couldn't live without music. Sherry "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life. Music and cats." --Albert Schweizer (sp?)

Me, Too, Sherry! i like it all. (Except Country and Rap.) I had "Celtic Woman" on the other night. Heavenly! and love,love, love El Divo!!! I do listen to some radio shows too. John Tesh in the evenings. the

80's and 90's shows on Sunday morning's radio. and i just cant miss Lawrence Welk on TV Saturday nites. go figure. i used to hate that stuff! now....i guess age has something to do with it!! couldn't live w/out music!!!

amy in CNY

Heh. You're a girl after my own heart. I'm a closet Welk fan too, and LOVE Celtic Woman. They performed in OK City last year ON MY BIRTHDAY and I'm still mad I didn't get to go.

Sherry

Do you have a favorite style or composer you like best? I like Bach and Mozart quite a bit. Some Beethoven.

Karen, Queen of Squishies

I leave the computer on and turned to this:

You can choose a music style to suit your mood.

Anna Belle

Easy piano? Ambient? Like who? What?

Karen, Queen of Squishies

Gone looking for Andrea Bocelli. Don't have any yet, sounds like a must have!

Karen, Queen of Squishies also couldn't live without music, all the time, everywhere

Okay, gone looking again.

Karen, Queen of Squishies

A few years ago I realized that I'd been listening to the same oldies rock since I was in high school and hadn't tried anything since then. I gave myself the assignment to try new music and judge it in a vacuum. That is, just ask myself what I think of it without regard to its age or popularity with different groups. I've learned tons about myself doing this. For one thing, I never thought of myself as someone who was swayed by peer pressure, but I've found the exercise to be surprisingly hard. I'll hear something on the radio, like it, then discover that it's teenybopper music or performed by some shock celebrity, something or someone that I don't want to be associated with. I have to remind myself that the only thing that should matter is what I think of the music by itself.

One example is Jack Johnson. I liked his In Between Dreams CD. After I'd been listening to it for a while, I learned that he was doing the music for the Curious George movie. What?! I've been listening to music for a kiddie movie? I had to argue with myself to continue liking Jack Johnson.

Another example is U2. For some reason I told myself that U2 was screaming melodyless rock. And wasn't the lead singer involved with Madonna in some celebrity gossip I didn't want to know about? Nevermind that I'd never listened to it to make up my own mind. Now, 20 years later, I can't believe how much I love U2 music. It's really sit back and get goosebumps sort of music. It started when "Original of the Species" came on the radio, and I was remembering a line of lyrics so I could find it online later.

So with that in mind, here's the list of new-to-me music and musicians that I've been listening to while in the sewing room. Sometimes I have trouble getting started and deciding what to work on next. So every morning, I put on a CD and just tell myself to start working on something, anything as long as I'm cutting and sewing, and to stay at it until the CD is over. It works for me.

Belle and Sebastian Big City Rock Tracy Chapman Coldplay Matt Costa Death Cab for Cutie Del Amitri The Frames Phillip Glass Iron and Wine Jack Johnson Keane Greg Laswell Mamadou Diabale Alexi Murdock Snow Patrol Vienna Teng U2 Vega 4 Yanni

--Lia

Wow, thanks for the list Julia!

Karen, Queen of Squishies with lots to explore

Try Hummel. There are two I like particularly - a trumpet concerto and a piano concerto; Vivaldi and Haydn would also have to be in there somewhere. . In message , "Karen, Queen of Squishies" writes

We have a local pianist whose music you might enjoy. She does a lot of show tunes and gospel music and has done several CDs. The proceeds from the CDs all go to charity. She has one CD of show tunes, one of Christmas music, and one of gospel music. She plays regularly in one of the lobbies at Mayo and always seems to draw a crowd. Occasionally someone -- a patient, a Mayo employee, a visitor -- will be singing with her. Let me know if you want more info.

Julia > my 3 favorites are classical, easy piano, and ambient.

Do read his life story first, if you can. It is most interesting - quite an unusual route to fame. . In message , "Karen, Queen of Squishies" writes

I would be interested to know what people have SUNG while quilting. It isn't a particularly rhythmical activity, so there can't ever have been quilting shanties or anything like the waulking songs of the Western Isles of Scotland, but women must surely have sung at quilting bees before the days of electrical music. Anybody come across descriptions of this?

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Ahhh, good 'ole "Folk Music" - my favorite (also Roberta Flack, Andrea Bocelli!, the Highwaymen, Peter-Paul&Mary, Mammas&Pappas, etc.)

ME-Judy

All of the above. I also have a huge library of music. I like everything, except rap and hip-hop. Joan Baez. Bob Dylan. Andrea Bocelli (he could sing me the phone book and I wouldn't care) The Beatles.

That's what I like too. Some of the early Romantics are also OK. But Bach rocks! Roberta in D

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Probably depended on the group involved. The church ladies might have sung hymns. There are accounts of the actual quilting bee as a social occasion, when a group got together to finish off someone's quilt. Ladies quilted in shifts, taking turns to mind the children and prepare food. Some of them were assigned to read aloud, an early form of audio books. Roberta in D

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