You probably think of soaring as a competitive venture
that would require edgy music. Most of my memories
of it after 50 years indulgence is wafting around with
light wingloading in something like a Ka-6. That suits
the Debussy music better. I started in an SG-38 and
fly a Discus B now, but most of my time has been spent
as an instructor in Schweizer 2-33s and in Blanik L-23s.

Now, Bruce, what did you want us to learn in Wikipedia?

At 23:42 16 July 2007, Shawn wrote:
wrote:
On Jul 16, 1:18?pm, Nyal Williams
wrote:
Specifically, I would recommend the Debussy quartet.

Now, what is this about Wikipedia, and under what
should
I look?
(I am a musicologist by profession)

At 16:06 16 July 2007, Bruce wrote:



OK I will bite -
String quartets are nice - but there has to be some
baroque.
So in my books - for gliding musinc - No Euphonium
means maximum score can't
exceed 70%... (look on wikipedia if you have to)
Nyal Williams wrote:
Unless it is a string quartet, it is too trashy to
accompany a glider in flight!
Now, there's a troll for you.
At 13:00 16 July 2007, Oscar S Alonso wrote:
RAS group,
I purchased this DVD from Cumulus Soaring a few
weeks
ago. An amazing
flight and DVD, I am very
happy with my purchase.
I am trying to figure out who did the music at
is
used
at the end of
the flight during the
landing. Any help would be apreciated.
Oscar Alonso- Hide quoted text -
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Impressionistic is TOO ...well..dreamy (Debussy).
Not sure about
quartets, either. Wagner, Mahler, or Holst would do
much
better

snip

Yikes!

Ancient classics just don't work for me over videos
of glider flight.
How about Joe Satriani's 'Ice Nine' or The Vince Guaraldi
Trio's
'Skating' from A Charlie Brown Christmas? Or any number
of Philip
Glass* compositions? Brian Eno? C'mon I mean 'Music
for Airports'!
I'd even take Blur's 'Song 2' (cough) before something
written by some
fossil born before aviation ;-)


Shawn


*You other music geeky types might appreciate:
http://www.philipglass.com/html/pages/jokes.html