On 4/8/16 3:02 PM, Keine Keyserschei�e wrote:
On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 11:54:15 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 4/8/16 10:22 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/8/2016 10:07 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:

$20 a month to listen to the radio in the truck after a three month free
trial?

People do this?


Sirius is a pain in the ass. They give you a free 3 month subscription
or something when you buy a new, Sirus equipped vehicle
and then hound the bananas out of you to set it up and subscribe.

I had a Sirius subscription way back when they first started and
took advantage of a "free" lifetime offer for $300. They seem to
have lost records of that.

I unsubscribed from all their emails. Don't need it. I figured out
how to pair my cell phone via Bluetooth and downloaded the Nissan app
that allows me to go on-line in the car. Subscribed to the free
version of Pandora. That's good enough in addition to local radio.

I mostly listen to one of our classical stations around here, or NPR,
and if I am "on the road," either find a local classical station or
listen to some of the 40 gigs of music on my iphone. Last time I drove
to Hilton Head, I listened to all nine of the Beethoven symphonies in
order, and played solely on the piano. It was a wonderful and
educational experience.

Bound to be so much better than Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic.
--

Not better than a full orchestra version, but certainly different. Franz
Lizst did the transcriptions and arrangements for solo piano, and they
certain are a tour de force. The piano versions reveal much about how
Beethoven structured his masterpieces and how certain themes make many
appearances, sometimes transposed. The pianist on the set I own is
Konstantin Scherbakov.
Here he is on another Beethoven piece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4tzhU1iJgs

On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 15:10:31 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 4/8/16 3:02 PM, Keine Keyserschei?e wrote:
On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 11:54:15 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 4/8/16 10:22 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/8/2016 10:07 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:

$20 a month to listen to the radio in the truck after a three month free
trial?

People do this?


Sirius is a pain in the ass. They give you a free 3 month subscription
or something when you buy a new, Sirus equipped vehicle
and then hound the bananas out of you to set it up and subscribe.

I had a Sirius subscription way back when they first started and
took advantage of a "free" lifetime offer for $300. They seem to
have lost records of that.

I unsubscribed from all their emails. Don't need it. I figured out
how to pair my cell phone via Bluetooth and downloaded the Nissan app
that allows me to go on-line in the car. Subscribed to the free
version of Pandora. That's good enough in addition to local radio.

I mostly listen to one of our classical stations around here, or NPR,
and if I am "on the road," either find a local classical station or
listen to some of the 40 gigs of music on my iphone. Last time I drove
to Hilton Head, I listened to all nine of the Beethoven symphonies in
order, and played solely on the piano. It was a wonderful and
educational experience.

Bound to be so much better than Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic.
--

Not better than a full orchestra version, but certainly different. Franz
Lizst did the transcriptions and arrangements for solo piano, and they
certain are a tour de force. The piano versions reveal much about how
Beethoven structured his masterpieces and how certain themes make many
appearances, sometimes transposed. The pianist on the set I own is
Konstantin Scherbakov.
Here he is on another Beethoven piece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4tzhU1iJgs

Played with an orchestra, there's not much finer music than Beethoven's Piano
Concerto No. 5. Saw it performed by the NSO back when Rostropovich was conducting.
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